LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”
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James Joyce’s “Dubliners”
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Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Twilight of the Idols”
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Sun Also Rises, first major novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1926. Titled Fiesta in England, the novel captures the moods, feelings, and attitudes of a hard-drinking, fast-living group of disillusioned expatriates in postwar France and Spain.
Detailed explanation-2: -In short, the war changed all those who experienced it, and those who came of age during the war became known as “the lost generation.” Through Jake and his friends and acquaintances, The Sun Also Rises depicts members of this lost generation.
Detailed explanation-3: -Modernist Novel what did it all mean?) paired with the bleaktastic and jaded tone of The Sun Also Rises marked this novel as something new. Something, well, modern. The book is seen as one of the big daddies of Modernism.
Detailed explanation-4: -Though first intended to denote Americans brought to Europe by the First World War, the “Lost Generation” refers to writers and other artists from the United States who took up residence in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. The words themselves were first attributed to Gertrude Stein by Ernest Hemingway.
Detailed explanation-5: -The term “Lost Generation” became associated with a group of writers and artists with whom Hemingway worked in Paris, France, during the early 1920s. However, the term also refers more broadly to all those who reached adulthood during World War I. In Europe, they have also been called “the generation of 1914.”