Modern English Literature periods literature

Modern English Literature

periods • • literature of the beginning of XX c. literature between World Wars post-war literature of the end of the XX c. and the beg. of XXI c.

modernism • grew out of a general sense of disillusionment with Victorian era, attitudes of certainty, conservatism, and objective truth; • was greatly influenced by the ideas of Romanticism, Karl Marx’s political writings, and Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theories of subconscious.

representatives of modernism • P. G. Wodehouse • James Joyce • • Joseph Conrad Virginia Woolf E. M. Forster Evelyn Waugh • • D. H. Lawrence T. S. Eliot William Faulkner Ernest Hemingway

authors and their books • • • James Joyce “Ulysses”, “Dubliners” Joseph Conrad “The Heart of Darkness” Virginia Woolf “To the Lighthouse”, “Orlando” E. M. Forster “A Room with a View”, “Howard’s End” Evelyn Waugh “Brideshead Revisited”, “A Handful of Dust” P. G. Wodehouse “Jeeves and Wooster” D. H. Lawrence “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”, “Sons and Lovers” T. S. Eliot “The Wasted Land”, “The Hollow Men” William Faulkner “The Sound and the Fury”, “Absalom, Absalom!” Ernest Hemingway “The Old Man and the Sea”, “A Farewell to Arms”

novelists between the world wars • Marianne Moore - an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit. • Elizabeth Bishop - an American poet and short-story writer. • W. H. Auden - an Anglo-American poet, noted for its stylistic and technical achievements, its engagement with moral and political issues, and its variety of tone, form and content.

novelists between the world wars • Vladimir Nabokov - a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer and a master English prose stylist. • William Carlos Williams - an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. • Ralph Ellison - an American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer.

novelists between the world wars • Dylan Thomas - a Welsh poet and writer who wrote exclusively in English. • R. S. Thomas - a Welsh poet and Anglican clergyman, noted for his nationalism, spirituality and deep dislike of the anglicisation of Wales. • Graham Greene - an English author, playwright and literary critic whose themes are Catholic religion and international politics and espionage.

post-modernism • a continuation of the experimentation championed by writers of the modernist period; • a reaction against Enlightenment ideas implicit in Modernist literature; • difficult to define and there is little agreement on the exact characteristics.

post-war modernistic authors • • Henry Miller William S. Burroughs Joseph Heller Kurt Vonnegut Hunter S. Thompson Truman Capote Thomas Pynchon

varieties of genres Detective fiction Science fiction Post modernistic literature Historical romance Thriller writing Dystopian novel Fantasy

detective fiction • Agatha Christie – “Murder on the Orient Express”, “Death on the Nile”, “And Then There Were None” • Dorothy L. Sayers – “Whose Body? ”, “Strong Poison”, “Murder Must Advertise”

historical romance Georgette Heyer - The Great Roxhythe, Simon the Coldheart, Beauvallet, The Conqueror, Royal Escape, My Lord John

fantasy novels • C. S. Lewis - “The Chronicles of Narnia” • J. R. R. Tolkien – “The Hobbit”, “The Lord of the Rings” • Roald Dahl – “The Witches”, “Matilda”, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”

dystopian novel • George Orwell – “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, “Animal Farm”, “Down and Out in Paris and London” • Anthony Burgess – “A Clockwork Orange”

thriller writing Ian Fleming Casino Royale Live and Let Die Moonraker Diamonds Are Forever From Russia, with Love Dr. No Goldfinger For Your Eyes Only Thunderball The Spy Who Loved Me On Her Majesty's Secret Service You Only Live Twice The Man with the Golden Gun

science fiction • Arthur C. Clarke – “ 2001: A Space Odyssey”

notable writers of the th c. late the 20 • • Pat Barker Margaret Drabble Anthony Powell Ayn Rand Terry Pratchett Douglas Adams J. G. Ballard Philip Pullman • • Zadie Smith Iris Murdoch A. S. Byatt Neil Gaiman Alan Moore William Golding Salman Rushdie Ian Mc. Ewan