Modernism 1900-1945

• Dealing with a rejection of the past - Trying to further understand the world through experiments like art, writing and science.
• A consequence of the Great War - NIHILISM - the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It is often associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns existence
• Famous writers: F Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Yeats, T.S Eliot, W.B Yeats and James Joyce