World+Literature


 * // Modern and Contemporary World Literature //**


 * 1984 by George Orwell **

"Modernism" GIST:
 * //Elements of Literature World Literature// ﻿ pages 839+ **

"Postmodernism" Gist: ** Post modernism is ironic commentary of past traditions dissolving between art and culture. The writers are ironic and challenges their meaning. -Becca F. & M.Dewey **

"Globalization" GIST: is the globalization of the communication industry. to globalize is to make somthing global in scope, in other words is the growth of the global and worldwide scale. -veronica

"The Information Age" GIST:

"World War I" ﻿GIST: Greg North - World War One was bad and gross there was lots of trench warfare. World war one will never be forgotten.

"World War II" GIST: Greg North - World war two was a very depressing era. There was so much violence and deaths. The soldiers deserve honorable mention.

“The Cold War: The Beginning of the Nuclear Age” G﻿IST: “The Emergence of Modern States” GIST: “Science, Technology, and the Information Age” GIST:

“Artistic Responses to the Modern World”

GIST: After World War 1, artist avoided traditional values and expressed their art through their experiences, new themes, & the modern world.

Joelene and Bryn

“Modernism in Literature” GIST:

“The Rise of Women's Movement” GIST: Keane Bokol- In the 1900s women writers struggled on establishing cultural identity in 1960s when women writers helped define it US politics and culture.

“The Response to the War”

GIST: After both of the world wars were over it became a time of disenchantment in literature that had many themes.