USA & Britain (jan 1, 1902 – jan 1, 1999)

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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

1950's - world power shifted to USA
literature captured the changes in the society after WWII
Postmodernism - attempted to break from the modernist style. They experimented with the forms of texts and played with meaningslessness

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