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jan 1, 1925 - USA AND BRITAIN

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- Social concern and awarness increased
- Unions were formed and strikes for minimun wages were organised
- Colonies rebelled against Britian
- WWI and WWII
- Poets wrote about patriotic feeling and pacifist feeling in poetry.
Unemployement rose in early 30s and the Depression age of dillusion and anxiety began

- Writers wanted to experiment and innovate
- 'Lost generation' - a gruop of writers of the post-war generation who were indifferent and dissillusioned
- Writers turned to more romantic themes - readers wanted to escape reality


-Novelists turned inwards, inspired by new knowledge in psychology, anthropology and science.
-Virigina Wolf & James Joyce - 'stream of consciousness'.
-Enerst Hemingway - iceberg technique

- World power shifted to USA in Social concern and awarness increased
unions were formed
strikes for minimun wages were organised
Colonies rebelled against Britian
WWI and WWII
Poets wrote about patriotic feeling and pacifist poetry.
Unemployement rose in early 30s
The Depression
age of dillusion and anxiety

Writers wanted to experiment and innovate
'Lost generation' - indifferent and dissillusioned writers
writers turned to more romantic themes - readers wanted to escape reality
F Scott Fitzgerald's novel - rich people escaped into pleasure-seeking world

new knowledge in psychology, anthropology and science - novelists "turned inwards".
Virigina Wolf & James Joyce - 'stream of consciousness'.
Enerst Hemingway - iceberg technique

- World power shifted to USA in 1950's
- Postmodernism - attempted to break from the modernist style. They experimented with the forms of texts and played with meaningslessness.

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Date:

jan 1, 1925
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~ 99 years ago

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