What are the characteristics of English literature in the 20th century?
English literature in the 20th century can be roughly divided into two periods: Modernism and Postmodernism. Modernism prevailed before World War Il. It can be viewed as a deliberate departure from tradition and is characterized by the use of innovative forms of expressions. Modernist writing seems disorganized and hard to understand. It often portrays the action from the viewpoint of a single confused individual, rather than from the viewpoint of an all-knowing impersonal narrator. After World War Il, Postmodernism began. Postmodernism differs in some ways from Modernism. Modernism, for example, tends to present a fragmented view of human subjectivity, but presents that fragmentation as something tragic and to be lamented as a loss. Postmodernism does not lament the idea of fragmentation, but rather celebrates it. Modernists look for buried meaning below the confusing surface, while postmodernists abandon that search.
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- American Literature in the 20th Century started from ______to the present.
- In the 20th century, English literature_____________ coexist.
- Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?
- In the 18th century English literature, satire is much used in writing. English literature of this age produced a distinguished satirist Defoe.
- The dominant genre of English literature in the 18th century was the novel.
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In the 18th century English literature ,the representative poet of neo-classicism is ______.
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English literature of the 17th century witnessed a decline on the whole.
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Chinese American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of Chinese descent. The genre began in the 19th century and flowered in the 20th with such authors as , , , and .
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In the 18th century English literature, the representative writers of realism were _______.
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English Literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish of novel on the whole.