Twentieth Century English Literature

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History of Literature
TW ENTIETH- CENTU RY ENGLISH LITERATURE Harry Blamires
With 18 black-and-white illustrations The last eighty years have produced not only outstanding writers who are now household names, but alsó a rangé of lesser-known, widely varying writers whose work has remained alive or been recently revived through the média.
Beginning with the Edwardian literary scene, the Irish movement, the Bloomsbury group, and the Georgians, Harry Blamires focuses especially on the upheaval of the First World War and the birth of Modernism. His study of the extraordinary inter-war period includes Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, and other writers whose novels of satire and sophistication were published alongside those reflecting the poverty and despair of the Depression. Sections on World War II and its aftermath cover the new realism, protest fiction, and the experiments of the 1950s and 1960s; and a concluding chapter surveys the present state of the növel, the... Tovább

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History of Literature
TW ENTIETH- CENTU RY ENGLISH LITERATURE Harry Blamires
With 18 black-and-white illustrations The last eighty years have produced not only outstanding writers who are now household names, but alsó a rangé of lesser-known, widely varying writers whose work has remained alive or been recently revived through the média.
Beginning with the Edwardian literary scene, the Irish movement, the Bloomsbury group, and the Georgians, Harry Blamires focuses especially on the upheaval of the First World War and the birth of Modernism. His study of the extraordinary inter-war period includes Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, and other writers whose novels of satire and sophistication were published alongside those reflecting the poverty and despair of the Depression. Sections on World War II and its aftermath cover the new realism, protest fiction, and the experiments of the 1950s and 1960s; and a concluding chapter surveys the present state of the növel, the theater, and poetry.
Harry Blamires' publications include The Bloomsday Book: A Guide through Joyce's Ulysses and A Short History of English Literature.
History of Literature Series
General Editor: A. Norman Jeffares
SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE Murray Roston
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE Bruce King
TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE Harry Blamires
ANGLO-IRISH LITERATURE A. Norman Jeííares Vissza