Postmodernism is a literary period often associated with the first half of the twentieth century.

In Amy Tans Half and Half, what was Teds mothers reaction to Ted dating the narrator?

In “Sonny’s Blues,” what does the narrator do for a living?

Why does Charlie return to Paris in Babylon Revisited?

According to the editors of your text, low modernism in poety is less formal and less experimental.

In Steinbecks The Chrysanthemums, why does the man stop at the Allen ranch?

This poem was published in 1922 in the Bristish magazine Criterion and the American Dial; It marked a cultural and literary event.  Its long fragmented structure and title refelect the poet’s view of the state of culture and civilization in the years immediately following World War I.

This poet was associated with America’s counter culture in the 1950s; he attended Columbia UNiversity, where he met Jack Kerouac and William S. Borroughs

Uninhibited by the past, the Modernist era upheld traditional America’s political, religious, economic, and social values.

Existentialism suggests a meaningless, chaotic, Godless universe, where individuals may or may not give meaning to their lives.