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English literature - Modernism, Poetry, Novels: The 20th century opened with great hope but also with some apprehension, for the new century marked the final approach to a new millennium. For many, humankind was entering upon an unprecedented era. H.G. Wells’s utopian studies, the aptly titled Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought ...
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Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000). The main periods in question are often grouped by scholars as Modernist literature, Postmodern literature, flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 to 1990 [1] respectively, roughly using World War II as a transition point.
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Modernism is a major literary movement of the first part of the twentieth-century. The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature. Irish writers were especially important in the twentieth-century, including James Joyce and later Samuel Beckett, both central figures in the Modernist movement.
May 11, 2020 · Below, we introduce ten classic twentieth-century novels which anyone aiming to be well-read in twentieth-century fiction should aim to read. 1. James Joyce, Ulysses. Although it has a reputation as a ‘difficult’ work – and Joyce’s 1922 novel is around 800 pages representing the pinnacle of literary modernism in the novel form ...
Western literature - Modernism, Postmodernism, Realism: When the 20th century began, social and cultural conditions that prevailed in Europe and America were not too different from those of the middle and late 19th century. Continuity could be seen, for example, in the work of four novelists writing in English at the turn of the century and after. Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and ...
6 days ago · A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list spans the seventy-year history of this major publishing house, and includes the poetry of Thom Gunn, Siegfried Sassoon, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Wendy Cope and Seamus Heaney. In total The Faber Poetry Library contains 140 volumes by 50 poets.
