2nd TERM LITERATURE (first half of the 20th century)

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2nd TERM LITERATURE (first half of the 20th century) In a Station of the Metro THE apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. 1913 – Ezra Pound

CHANGING TIMES World War I, 1914–1918, and World War II, 1939–1945 Industrialisation Sigmund Freud psychoanalysis Growing influence of Socialist and Communist ideas Technological advances Different role of women Great Depression

BETWEEN WORLD WARS IN THE USA Women and racial minorities gained some civil liberties Jazz Age Stock market crash of 1929 Great Depression Urban North vs. rural South Immigration restrictions

INTERWAR YEARS IN BRITAIN Irish & British relations End of Victorian-Edwardian values Great Empire difficult to rule Strikes

LITERARY CONTENTS OF THE 2nd TERM 2. La primera mitad del siglo XX. El impacto de la Primera Guerra Mundial y la ruptura con la tradición: a) El Modernismo. Características. b) La literatura del Reino Unido : — Prosa: Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, W. Somerset Maugham, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, etcétera. — Poesía: Los “War Poets”: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen. Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot, etcétera. — Teatro: George Bernard Shaw, Sean O’Casey, J. M. Synge, Noël Coward, etcétera.

LITERARY CONTENTS OF THE 2nd TERM c) La literatura de los Estados Unidos : — Prosa: “The Lost Generation”. John Dos Passos, Henry Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, J. D. Salinger, etcétera. — Poesía: Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, etcétera. — Teatro: Sophie Treadwell, Eugene O’Neill, Elmer Rice, Thornton Wilder, Lillian Hellman, etcétera.

Online research task How can you define Modernism as a literary movement? How do the following concepts fit in that definition? fragmentation (literary) tradition role of the reader self-reflective popular culture experimentation

RESOURCES IMAGES ONLINE RESOURCES SLIDE 1. Entrance of "Père Lachaise" station, by Barbara Mürdter SLIDE 2. Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, 1830 (Wikipedia) A Realist portrait of Otto von Bismarck (Wikipedia) Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1910(Wikipedia) SLIDE 4 http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hbt9GjYeW0Q/TTZDVUpFQWI/AAAAAAAAAUc/zi-2I_L1Ec0/s1600/fashion_1920s2. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Unemployed_men_queued_outside_a_depression_soup_kitchen_opened_in_Chicago_by_Al_Capone%2C_02-1931_-_NARA_-_541927.jpg SLIDE 5 Tyldesley miners outside the Miners’ Hall during the strike ONLINE RESOURCES Norton Anthology of American Literature Norton Anthology of English Literature