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    TheTheTwentiethTwentieth CenturyCentury1901 - 2000

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    HistoryHistory ofof thetheTimeTime

    y Edward VII

    Frienship with several major Europeancountries Edward the Peacemaker.

    With his death, peace, power, privilege.

    y World War I

    King George V, Edwards son, took

    nation through war. War of mud, blood,new tanks, machine guns, flamethrowersand poison gas.

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    HistoryHistory ofof thetheTimeTime

    ` World War II Large parts of London destroyed in 1941.

    60,000 civilians killed. Churchill joined forces with U.S. president

    Roosevelt. In 1944 British and American forces landed

    in Normandy, France. Germanysurrendered within a year.

    `Modern Day British Empire disolved into federation of

    independent nations: Canada, Australia,New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan,Nigeria,Sierra Leone,West Indies.

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    LifeLife ofof thetheTimeTime

    y People are talking about.

    Womens Rights women over 21 granted theright to vote in 1928. Laws designed to protect women: Equal Pay Act in 1970. 1st woman

    prime minister.

    Technology: Age of Technology advent ofradio. 1st practical television system in the1940s. Microprocessor developed in the1970s.

    Immigration from West Indies mostly, followedby Asians,Africans and Middle Easterners.

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    LifeLife ofof thetheTimeTime` Food,fashion, arts and entertainment

    Skirts and hair scandalously short after WWI.The sixties added miniskirts, punk and hip-hopstyles followed.

    In restaurants Britons enjoyed Indian, Chineseand other foreign cuisine. People welcomed fastfood.

    More than 800 supermarkets opened between1956 and 1961.

    By 1945 more than 4,500 cinemas.

    Rock innovations of The Beatles, the Who andRolling Stones.

    Shopping form of entertaiment.

    Football grew more popular. Won World Cup in1966.

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    LiteratureLiterature ofof thetheTimeTime

    y People are reading and writing.

    War Poems. Brooke expressed patriotic

    fervor. Rosenberg, Sasson and Owen

    recorded savageness of war. Tabloids developed as supplement to

    Sunday newspaper . Sensationalized stories

    about public figures.

    The Web for information andentertainment

    Letters transformation in purpose and

    manner in which sent.

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    LiteraryLiteraryTrendsTrends

    ` New approach modernism. Coversvariety of movements united by desireto break with past, change structure andcontent of arts.

    `

    New ways of perceiving and describing world anthropology, psychology andphilosophy.

    ` Ezra Pound exuberant & optimisticbefore WW I. The Waste Land by T.S.

    Eliot disillusionment & alienation.` Poets experiment with free verse.` Prose writers: James Joyce & VirginiaWoolf incorporated ideas of psychology.

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    FocusFocus onon

    ` Short story roots in Chaucer but flourished in20 th century.

    ` Many short stories published: own unique style,technique & subject matter.

    ` Novelists Forster and Joyce also wrote shortstories.

    ` Katherine Mansfield and Nadine Gordimerestablished literary reputations with shortstories.

    ` Able to capture and express soul of changingworld.

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    ContemporaryContemporary PeriodPeriod ofof

    L

    iteratureL

    iteraturey Historical Context A world growing smaller due to ease of

    communications between societies.

    A world launching a new beginning of acentury and a millennium.

    Media culture interprets values and

    events for individuals.

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    GenresGenres//StylesStyles

    ` All genres represented Fictional confessional/diaries - 50% of

    contemporary fiction is written in the firstperson.

    Narratives:both fiction and nonfiction.

    Emotion-provoking.

    Humorous irony.

    Autobiographical essays.

    Mixing of fantasy with nonfiction. Seamus Heaney, Doris Lessing, Kazuo

    Ishiguro, Tom Stoppard, Salman Rushdie.John Le Carre,Ken Follett.


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