Lost Generation

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cultural generation literary movement

The Lost Generation was a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and became known for their disillusioned, expatriate perspectives and influential modernist works in the 1920s.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Lost Generation canonical	33
Lost Generation literature	3
the Lost Generation	2
Lost Generation literary scene	1
writers of the Lost Generation	1

Statements (56)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural generation ⓘ literary movement ⓘ
activeInPeriod	1920s ⓘ interwar period ⓘ
associatedPlace	France ⓘ Left Bank of the Seine ⓘ surface form: Left Bank London, England ⓘ surface form: London Montparnasse ⓘ New York City ⓘ Paris ⓘ
coinedBy	Gertrude Stein ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ
emergedDuring	World War I ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	alienation ⓘ disillusionment ⓘ expatriate perspective ⓘ modernism ⓘ postwar cynicism ⓘ
hasMainActivity	literature ⓘ
hasNotableMember	Archibald MacLeish ⓘ Djuna Barnes ⓘ E. E. Cummings ⓘ Ernest Hemingway ⓘ Ezra Pound ⓘ F. Scott Fitzgerald ⓘ Gertrude Stein ⓘ Hart Crane ⓘ John Dos Passos ⓘ John Steinbeck ⓘ Kay Boyle ⓘ Sherwood Anderson ⓘ T. S. Eliot ⓘ William Faulkner ⓘ
hasNotableWork	A Farewell to Arms ⓘ The Great Gatsby ⓘ The Sun Also Rises ⓘ The Waste Land ⓘ James Joyce's Ulysses ⓘ surface form: Ulysses
influenced	20th-century fiction ⓘ American literature ⓘ modernist literature ⓘ
influencedByEvent	World War I ⓘ
influencedByMovement	modernism ⓘ realism ⓘ
influencedByPhilosophy	existentialism ⓘ
languageUsed	English ⓘ
popularizedBy	Ernest Hemingway ⓘ
typicalForm	novel ⓘ poetry ⓘ short story ⓘ
typicalTheme	exile ⓘ hedonism ⓘ loss of faith in traditional values ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ psychological trauma of war ⓘ search for meaning ⓘ

Referenced by (40)

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American literature → hasMovement → Lost Generation ⓘ

A Moveable Feast → literaryMovement → Lost Generation ⓘ

Ernest Hemingway → movement → Lost Generation ⓘ

F. Scott Fitzgerald → movement → Lost Generation ⓘ

Charles Scribner's Sons → associatedWith → Lost Generation ⓘ

Gertrude Stein → memberOf → Lost Generation ⓘ

Hadley Richardson → associatedWith → Lost Generation ⓘ

The Sun Also Rises → literaryMovement → Lost Generation ⓘ

The Sun Also Rises → theme → Lost Generation ⓘ

this entity surface form: the Lost Generation

Men Without Women → literaryPeriod → Lost Generation ⓘ

A Farewell to Arms → literaryMovement → Lost Generation ⓘ

In Our Time → literaryPeriod → Lost Generation ⓘ

Owl Eyes → literaryMovementOfWork → Lost Generation ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lost Generation literature

Djuna Barnes → participantIn → Lost Generation ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lost Generation literary scene

Kay Boyle → movement → Lost Generation ⓘ

West Egg → literaryMovementContext → Lost Generation ⓘ

Tender Is the Night → literaryMovement → Lost Generation ⓘ

Zelda Fitzgerald → associatedWith → Lost Generation ⓘ

Pauline Pfeiffer → associatedWith → Lost Generation ⓘ

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas → depicts → Lost Generation ⓘ

this entity surface form: writers of the Lost Generation

The Paris Wife → subject → Lost Generation ⓘ

Jake Barnes → literaryMovement → Lost Generation ⓘ

Jake Barnes → associatedWith → Lost Generation ⓘ

Lady Brett Ashley → literaryPeriod → Lost Generation ⓘ

Robert Cohn → associatedWithTheme → Lost Generation ⓘ

Robert Cohn → literaryMovementContext → Lost Generation ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lost Generation literature

Mike Campbell → memberOf → Lost Generation ⓘ

Elizabeth Hadley Richardson → associatedWith → Lost Generation ⓘ

Bill Gorton → associatedWithTheme → Lost Generation ⓘ

this entity surface form: the Lost Generation

Frederic Henry → literaryMovement → Lost Generation ⓘ

Rinaldi → literaryMovement → Lost Generation ⓘ

Indian Camp → literaryMovement → Lost Generation ⓘ

The Revolutionist → literaryMovement → Lost Generation ⓘ

The Sun Also Rises (1957 film) → portrays → Lost Generation ⓘ

Jazz Age literature → isAssociatedWith → Lost Generation ⓘ

Tommy Barban → literaryPeriodOfWorkAppearsIn → Lost Generation ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lost Generation literature

Mary North → literaryMovementOfCreator → Lost Generation ⓘ

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald → literaryMovementDepicted → Lost Generation ⓘ

The Rich Boy → literaryMovement → Lost Generation ⓘ

Hot and Cold Blood → literaryMovement → Lost Generation ⓘ