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    The modern period in the 20th century saw two world wars, the end of Queen Victoria's reign in 1901, and the rise of modernist literature. Modernist literature broke from traditional styles and focused on capturing fragmented modern life and individual experiences. It emphasized omitted traditional structures and implied themes over stated ones. Important modernist authors included Thomas Hardy, T.S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf, whose works used new techniques like stream-of-consciousness to examine the effects of events like World War I on individuals and society.

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    The modern period in the 20th century saw two world wars, the end of Queen Victoria's reign in 1901, and the rise of modernist literature. Modernist literature broke from traditional styles and focused on capturing fragmented modern life and individual experiences. It emphasized omitted traditional structures and implied themes over stated ones. Important modernist authors included Thomas Hardy, T.S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf, whose works used new techniques like stream-of-consciousness to examine the effects of events like World War I on individuals and society.

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    The modern period in the 20th century saw two world wars, the end of Queen Victoria's reign in 1901, and the rise of modernist literature. Modernist literature broke from traditional styles and focused on capturing fragmented modern life and individual experiences. It emphasized omitted traditional structures and implied themes over stated ones. Important modernist authors included Thomas Hardy, T.S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf, whose works used new techniques like stream-of-consciousness to examine the effects of events like World War I on individuals and society.

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    Modern period in

    20 th century

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    History

    • 1901- The End of the Reign of Queen Victoria

    • 1914-18- First world war

    • 1939-45- Second world war

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    Literature

    Modernist literature, has its origins in the late


    19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe
    and North America, and is characterized by a
    self-conscious break with traditional ways of
    writing, in both poetry and prose fiction

    Authors felt the need to break with the past and


    “make it new”

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    The horrors of the First World War affect
    people, so they lost sense of optimism; felt
    uncertain about future and disillusioned

    Modernist writers also were influenced by


    such thinkers as Sigmund Freud and Karl
    Marx, amongst others, who raised
    questions about the rationality of the
    human mind

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    The experiences of the First World War were reflected in
    the work of war poets such as Wilfred Owen etc.. Many
    writers turned away from patriotic and imperialist themes
    as a result of the war

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    Characteristics of medernism in literature

    •It is characterized by a self-conscious break


    with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry
    and prose fiction

    •Writers of this period tend to pursue more


    experimental and usually more highly
    individualistic forms of writing.

    •Capture modern life (fragmented)

    •Emphasize individual perception and


    experiences as an attempt to find shared
    meaning of humanity

    •Omitted traditional forms of stories (exposition,


    resolutions, etc..)
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    •Themes were implied, not stated (forced
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    readers to draw their own conclusions)
    Important Authors

    The major lyric poet of the first decades of the


    20th century was: Thomas Hardy

    The lost generation:

    •Joseph Conrad (Polish): Heart of Darkness

    •T.S.Eliot & Pound (Americans)

    •Yeats & Joyce (Irish)

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    Important novelists between the two
    World Wars included the Irish writer
    James Joyce, as well as Lawrence,
    Enid Blyton, Wodehouse, and Virginia
    Woolf.

    Virginia Woolf was an influential


    feminist, and a major stylistic innovator
    associated with the stream-of-
    consciousness technique.

    Her novels included To the Lighthouse,


    Mrs Dalloway, and The Waves.

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    George Orwell

    An acclaimed essayist and novelist,


    Orwell's works are considered
    among the most important social
    and political commentaries of the
    20th century. Dealing with issues
    such as poverty in The Road to
    Wigan Pier and Down and Out in
    Paris and London

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