ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ambrose Bierce, Reason, Cinema Of The United States
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Vo introduction to american literary studies: modernism. Scholarship often refers to modernism as the era of time and space , because it intensely occupies itself with these two parameters of human experience. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century great inventions were made: in the realm of transportation, steamboats, trains, automobiles and airplanes diminish great distances as did the telegraph and the telephone in communications. Also, new media like photography and film greatly altered the general perception of reality. These inventions influenced the life of the authors and as a result their works. He was a turn-of-the-century author and so he partially predated modernism"s narrative experiments by decades. In the story an occurrence at owls creek bridge toys with time and space, two typical issues in early twentieth-century. Bierce"s short story misleads us, similar to the way edgar allan poe"s tales of ratiocination set up the reader.
