The Twentieth and Twenty First centuries

Question 1

Description of politics

Answer 1

See Notability

Question 2

Different types of literature (names and groups of authors)

Answer 2

Commitment poets and novelists
Poets against commitment (neo romantic and decadent writing)
Modernism and post modernism
Post colonial and post imperial colonial writing

Question 3

Novels

Answer 3

Pessimism about the fate of modern society
Setting in the past
Blur the distinction between the fabulous and the real
ENVIRONMENTAL PROSE or NEW NATURE WRITING: the landscape and ecosystems of which we are a part have been irrevocably altered by the advanced economies
Some of them take the form of narratives of journeys

Question 4

Poetry

Answer 4

Expand the language
Live in a time overshadowed by the past
Influence of Irish poetry
Ecopoetics

Question 5

Drama

Answer 5

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (1955)

Question 6

Gender, sexuality, class and society

Answer 6

Social climbing —> women with power and the ones who stayed like before (Top Girls ≠ Union Street);
Women after war returned to the conditions that there were before, but with new improvement

Question 7

Readings

Answer 7

George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
Sam Selvon - The Lonely Londoners (1956)
Philip Larkin - The Whitsun Weddings (1964)
Pat Barker - Union Street (1982)
Sarah Kane - Blasted (1995)
Alice Oswald - Dart (2002)