BLURRING BOUNDARIES

Question 1

an example of widespread strikes

Answer 1

WINTER OF DISCONTENT 1979
link to Callaghan’s decision to impose a cap on pay rises

Question 2

basic tenets of Thatcherism

Answer 2

• to foster private entreprises
• to impose a free-market ideology
  1979-1990

Question 3

nickname of M. Thatcher

Answer 3

the “Iron Lady”

Question 4

Why does Thatcher’s popularity had waned by the end of the 1980s ?

Answer 4

It was widely represented in the British population that Thatcherism helped the rich get richer while the poor where getting poorer

Question 5

A novel that describe the political environment ?

Answer 5

What a carve up ! Jonathan Coe
It criticizes the way powerful lobbies managed to exert their far-reaching influence on the Thatcher government

Question 6

Quotation Postmodernism

Answer 6

“Postmodernism continues the modernist critique of traditional realism but it try to go beyond or around or underneath modernism”
“A lot of postmodernist writing implies that whatever meaningful patterns we discern are wholly illusory, comforting fictions”.
David Lodge Working with Structuralism

Question 7

A salient feature of postmodernist fiction

Answer 7

The ability to deride itself; in Small World, David Lodge present a mise en abyme of postmodernism using its own technique to better mock its excesses

Question 8

Author that uses magic realism ?

Answer 8

Angela Carter
Jeanette Winterson
Salman Rushdie