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MODERN LITERATUREBy: Logan Tanner, Sana Qureshi, and Erica Taylor
Interesting Facts
Continuation and critique of Romanticism “Challenge and enlightenment in the absence of God or
external authority.” Experimental nature Started in the 16th Century Fascism-type of government
who is dependent on the
absolute power of the
dictatorship. Agatha Christie is considered to
be the best selling author of all time
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Aleksandr Pushkin who is called the father of modern Russian literature was killed in a duel with his wife's lover.
When Charles Dickens was 12 he worked in a boot factory.
TS Elliot was born in St. Louis Missouri but spent most of his life in England.
The novel Gadsby written by Ernest Vincent Wright contains 50,110 words but none contain the letter "e."
Germany is the home of the first illustrated book for children in 1658.
Ian Flemming wrote the first James Bond novel "Casino Royale" in 1952.
Author Barbara Cartland published 723 novels by writing one every two weeks.
Poets: Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, Arther Symonds, and W.B. Yeats
Writers: Stephen Carne, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford
James Joyce- wrote Ulysses (1922) language, presenting all the forced of language and the senses language creates.
D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Wolf- Mrs.
Dalloway and The Years
*In the 1930’s Modernist writers
became more political (rise of Fascism
in Europe)
Famous Writers/Poets
Historical Influences
England loses 1 million soldiers in WWI (produced major shifts in attitudes toward western myth of progress and civilization)
Germany bombs England Creates a tone of fear and mourning
Incorporation of Anthropology, Biology, and Psychology Anthropology- Women are more important
Female writers are more readily recognized Biology-More scientific understanding
Connections between humans and animals Rapid social change
Has reader go through a day in a life of a narratorBrought about openness within a story or poemHas readers consider free will and cognitive exploration
o Climb inside a mind and understand the meanings
o Fascination with how someone defines reality within the mind
Time is viewed as cyclicalo Reader moves from one image to another in
flutters
Modernist Literature
Modernists
Modernism pushes boundaries and breaks tradition purposely
World is created by how humans perceive it No real connection with history No chronological order on how events happen Love the fact that there is inner strength
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