1. 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

3. 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

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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
SLIDE 5
Tyldesley miners outside the Miners’ Hall during the strike
ONLINE RESOURCES
Norton Anthology of American Literature
Norton Anthology of English Literature