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Lost Generation
LOST GENERATIONLOST GENERATION refers to a group of early-twentieth-century American writers, notably Hart Crane, e. e. cummings, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thornton Wilder, and Thomas Wolfe. The writings of these authors were shaped by World War I and self-imposed exile from the American mainstream. Malcolm Cowley, a chronicler of the era, suggested that they shared a distaste for the grandiose patriotic war manifestos, although they differed widely in their means of expressing that distaste. The influence of T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein, as well as encouragement of editors and publishers of magazines such as Dial, Little Review, transition, and Broom, were significant in the development of their writings. BIBLIOGRAPHYCowley, Malcolm. A Second Flowering: Works and Days of the Lost Generation. New York: Viking Press, 1974. Dolan, Marc. Modern Lives: A Cultural Re-reading of the "Lost Generation." West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1996. SarahFerrell/d. b. See alsoGenerational Conflict ; Literature: Popular Literature . |
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"Lost Generation." Dictionary of American History. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Lost Generation." Dictionary of American History. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401802440.html "Lost Generation." Dictionary of American History. 2003. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401802440.html |
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Lost Generation
Lost Generation, name applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and aesthetes of the years following World War I, who rebelled against former ideals and values but could replace them only by despair or a cynical hedonism. The remark of Gertrude Stein, “You are all a lost generation,” addressed to Hemingway, was used as a preface to the latter's novel The Sun Also Rises, which brilliantly describes an expatriate group typical of the “lost generation.” Other expatriate American authors of the period to whom the term is generally applied include Malcolm Cowley, E.E. Cummings, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Archibald MacLeish, and Ezra Pound.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Lost Generation." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Lost Generation." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-LostGeneration.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Lost Generation." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-LostGeneration.html |
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lost generation
lost gen·er·a·tion • n. the generation reaching maturity during and just after World War I, a high proportion of whose men were killed during those years. ∎ an unfulfilled generation coming to maturity during a period of instability. |
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"lost generation." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "lost generation." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-lostgeneration.html "lost generation." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-lostgeneration.html |
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