Lecture №7 Modernism in American Literature (1900s). Jack London, Th. Dreiser

Key Words and Expressions  

 

By leaps and bounds  

Incessant flow  

Annex  

Subjugate  

Sustain  

Aspiration  

Hypocrisy  

Pseudonym  

Enticing  

Enlist 

Withstand 

Squander 

Devasting 

Herald 

Dazzling 

Seductive glamour 

Reminisces 

 

Questions  

1. What were the results of the Civil War and its impact on the development of 

American literature?  

2. What trends in American literature of that period do you know?  

3. What are the problems raised by Jack London in his stories about severe North?  

4. What is the concept of modernism? 

5. What are the novels in which Dreiser spoke about American women? 

  

 

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Document Outline

• Lecture № 7