Lost Generation Literature

Lost Generation Literature. Learning Objectives for this video:

• Lost Generation Literature. Learn about American Literature and the Lost Generations. Trace America-s literary heritage from the turn of the century to the beginning of World War 2 with themes of social injustice, characteristics of modern poetry, and the playwrights who contributed to American Theater.
• Trace America-s literary heritage through a prolific era distinguished by the now-legendary voices of the Harlem Renaissance and the Lost Generation; and survey monumental literary works that explore themes of social injustice and the desensitization and dislocation that followed in the wake of the First World War.
• Gain insight to the honesty and directness characteristic of modern poetry through a survey of pre-eminent poets, including Hart Crane, Hilda Doolittle, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edgar Lee Masters, Ezra Pound, and Carl Sandburg.
• Identify works by Eugene O-Neill, Thorton Wilder, and Lillian Hellman, playwrights who made important contributions to the American theater in the 1930-s.
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