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Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition The term “Lost Generation” refers to the generation of people who reached adulthood during or immediately following World War I. Demographers generally consider 1883 to 1900 as the birth year range of the generation. Gatsby is surrounded by an aura of mystery and illusion, not unlike L. Frank Baum’s Great and Powerful Oz. Nick Carraway, the tale’s “honest” narrator, is a small-town, Midwest American boy who once spent some time in New York with the greatest man he has ever known, Jay Gatsby.
All rights reserved.the generation of men and women who came of age during or immediately following World War I: viewed, as a result of their war experiences and the social upheaval of the time, as cynical, disillusioned, and without cultural or emotional stability.a group of American writers of this generation, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Dos Passos.the large number of talented young men killed in World War Ithe generation of writers, esp American authors such as Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway, active after World War I
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The generation born between 1883 and 1900 that came of age during this time became known as the Lost Generation.
It seems that no one named the generations before that. The generation is referred to as “lost” not because it has faded from memory, but because the individuals often …
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To Nick, Gatsby is the embodiment of the American Dream: rich, powerful, attractive, and elusive. Lost Generation. The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel, The Sun Also Rises.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. n ( sometimes not capitals) 1. Originally Answered: What is the name for the generation before "The Lost Generation"? The Lost Generation is a term used to refer to a collective group of artists and writers who settled in Europe in the wake of the First World War. Members of this group lived in Europe in the 1920s and early 1930s, and they had a profound impact on society and the arts. 2. Lost generation definition, the generation of men and women who came of age during or immediately following World War I: viewed, as a result of their war experiences and the social upheaval of the time, as cynical, disillusioned, and without cultural or emotional stability. Lost Generation.
Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.The generation was “lost” in the sense that its inherited values were no longer relevant in the postwar world and because of its spiritual alienation from a United States that, basking under Pres. Get kids back-to-school ready with Expedition: Learn! Ernest Hemingway in an American Red Cross ambulance, Italy, 1918.This article was most recently revised and updated by The term is also used more generally to refer to the post-World War I generation. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is limited to European countries. In that volume Hemingway credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein, who was then his mentor and patron. The "Lost Generation" was the generation that came of age during World War I. Lost Generation, a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and established their literary reputations in the 1920s. Dictionary.com Unabridged