1939- Today
Events of the period:
*Second world war ( 1941)
*Cold war between communist countries and the west
*U.S. becomes a cultural and economic force in the world
*British influence gets weaker
*Globalization
The Novel
The novel told stories of the second world war
1940’s à George Orwell
- Most of his books had a political Intention
- Animal Farm ( 1945)
1950’s- 1960’s à Female writers began to emerge
Muriel Spark
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1961)
Agatha Christie
- Woman detective story writer
- Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple
1970’s – Present--> 4 new directions
The focus on foreign and local, regional voices
- Timothy Mo (Mixed Cultures)
More female voices
-Angela Carter
The academic or campus Novel
- History man by Malcolm Bradbury
4)Fantasy/Magic Realism
- Angela Carter
Poetry
This is when the younger generation came into Literature
T.S. Eliot
Wrote about the second world war
Dylan Thomas
Wrote about death
“ Do not go gentle into that good night”
Drama
2 new trends :
-Absurd Drama: Drama that is made to point out how meaningless life is
- Began in France in the 1940s reached Britain in 1955
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
-Social Drama: The concern of the younger generation. They saw a need to change society and add new values to the modern world.
- Look Back in Anger by John Osborne 1956
Presented By: Riham, Naser, Hamed, Darwish