Twentieth Century British Literature

1. Twentieth Century British Literature

2. Overview Literature Lit terms • Poetry • Contemporary poetry project • Short Stories • James Joyce • H.G. Wells • W.M. Forester • D.H. Lawrence • Graham Greene • Samuel Beckett • Modernism • Allegory • Stream of Consciousness • Among many we’ve seen before • Symbolism • Irony • With • Tone • Theme, etc

3. World War I • Old war with new technology • Changed ‘natural order of world’ • Literature reflected this • Modernism

4. Modernism • A term that identifies new and distinctive features in the subjects, forms, concepts, and styles of literature and the other arts in the early decades of the 20th century, especially after WWI. It involves a deliberate and radical break with some of the traditional bases not only of Western art, but Western culture in general. • Writers revolted against • Sentimentality • Materialistic ideas • Plot conventions of realism

5. Romantic-Realist-Modernist

6. Between Wars • Rise of fascism • Mussolini in Italy • Nazis • Economies struggled • Great Depression in America • Spanish Civil War • All of these affected literature and art

7. World War II German “Blitzkrieg” of London

8. Post WWII • Gone: • British Empire • Here: • Self governing Canada, Australia, New Zealand, & South Africa • Independent Ireland • Controlled Northern Ireland • Independent India, Pakistan, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya • A hot princess

9. Contemporary Writing • Influence from: • Different ethnicities • All classes of life • More physiological