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Diana Maria Nathalia Adriana Sandra

2Oth Century Literature. Diana Maria Nathalia Adriana Sandra. Prose, poetry, and drama written in English in the UK in the 1900s. . Historical Events. Impact of World War I (1914–18) and World War II (1939–45). Russian Revolution – Communism (1905-1917). Women’s Suffrage (Since 1902).

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Diana Maria Nathalia Adriana Sandra

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  1. 2Oth Century Literature Diana Maria Nathalia Adriana Sandra

  2. Prose, poetry, and drama written in English in the UK in the 1900s.

  3. Historical Events

  4. Impact of World War I (1914–18) and World War II (1939–45). Russian Revolution – Communism (1905-1917) Women’s Suffrage (Since 1902) Spanish Civil War (1936–39) Cold War 1945–1991

  5. Early 20th-Century Novel

  6. Characteristics

  7. Dominated by the effects of World War I and II. Uncertain of the concept of ‘Britishness’. Doubting the principles on which the Victorians had based their social code. Uncertainty and complexity.

  8. Authors

  9. John Buchan (The Thirty-Nine Steps, 1915) Concerned with the politics of World War I and the Boer War. John Galsworthy (Forsyte Saga, 1906–22) Concerned more about social than political change.

  10. Arnold Benett (The Clayhanger trilogy, 1910–15) Focuses on escape from the Victorian past. H.G. Wells (Kipps, 1905) Moved towards anti-capitalism. E.M.Forster (A Passage to India, 1924) Questions the attitude to the British Empire.

  11. Early 20th-Century Drama

  12. Characteristics

  13. Playwrights questioned society and values Attacked class prejudice Social satires

  14. Authors

  15. George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion (1913) John Galsworthy Strife (1901) and Justice (1910) The Plough and the Stars (1926) Seán O'Casey Hay Fever, 1925; Private Lives, 1930 Noël Coward

  16. Early 20th- Century Poetry

  17. Characteristics

  18. Unfulfilled hopes. Concerned with the realities of Irish politics. Irish mythology and mystic symbolism. Waste and destruction of humanity in 20th-century warfare.

  19. Authors

  20. Charlotte Mew ‘The Farmer's Bride’ (1915) Thomas Hardy ‘The Darkling Thrush’ (1901) W B Yeats ‘Easter’ (1916) ‘The war sonnets’ (1914) Rupert Brooke Wilfred Owen ‘Counter-Attack’ (1918)

  21. Modernism

  22. Characteristics

  23. Disillusionment with Victorian era attitudes and conservatism. Influenced by the ideas of Romanticism and Karl Marx's political writings. Impressionism and Cubism, were important inspirations for modernist writers. The rise of imagism and free verse, forms which would dominate English poetry into the twenty-first century.

  24. Authors

  25. T.S. Eliot Wrote poetry, criticism, and plays. James Joyce Ulysses, 1922 D H Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1928 Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway, 1925

  26. Mid 20th Century

  27. Characteristics

  28. Scientifically controlled future. The rise of the Nazis in Germany. Political corruption and urban problems The creation of verse drama. Communistideology. Social vice

  29. Authors

  30. Brave New World, 1932 Aldous Huxley Christopher Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin,1939 Wrote verse drama W H Auden The Power and the Glory, 1940 Graham Greene Animal Farm, 1945 George Orwell An Inspector Calls,1947 J.B. Priestley

  31. Post-war Prose

  32. Characteristics

  33. Fantasy Fiction Detective Fiction Experimental and philosophical work

  34. Authors

  35. J R R Tolkien The Lord of the Rings, 1954 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, 1963 John Le Carré Experimental and philosophical work Samuel Beckett Malcolm Bradbury The History Man, 1975

  36. Post-war Drama

  37. Characteristics

  38. Social & Political Dramas Film Scripts Was helped by Television

  39. Authors

  40. The Winslow Boy, 1946 Terence Rattigan John Arden Live Like Pigs, 1958 Plenty,1978 David Hare Top Girls, 1982 Caryl Churchill Ryan's Daughter, 1970 Robert Bolt The Singing Detective, 1986 Dennis Potter

  41. Post-war Poetry

  42. Characteristics

  43. Natural Imagery is combined with… Personal viewpoints on the human experience

  44. Authors

  45. Not Waving But Drowning, 1957 Stevie Smith Ted Hughes Crow, 1970 OpenedGround, 1998 Seamus Heaney High Windows, 1974 Philip Larkin The Year of the Whale, 1965 George Mackay Brown Collected Poems, 1997 Charles Causley

  46. Post-war women's writing

  47. Characteristics

  48. Contemporary life and women's changing roles within it. Female Sexuality Magic realism Concerned about what the past can teach us. Manipulation of Language and Characterization

  49. Authors

  50. Doris Lessing Children of Violence, 1952 Margaret Drabble The Millstone, 1965 Nights at the Circus, 1984 Angela Carter Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, 1985 Jeanette Winterson Howard Brenton The Romans in Britain Lawrence of Arabia, 1962; Dr. Zhivago, 1965 Robert Bolt

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