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contents introduction……………………………………………………………….3 chapter i the most popular literary styles and their representatives 1.2 american novel of the first half of the 20th century………………………….4 1.2 the works of the writers of a «lost generation»……………………………..7 1.3 absurdity in the writings of the first half of the 20th century………………..10 chapter ii twentieth century american drama fiction and detective genre 2.1 dramatic works……………………………………………………………….14 2.2 american poetry………………………………………………………………19 2.3 american detective fiction in the 20th centur……………………………….24 chapter iii english literature of 20th century 3.1 modernism in the 1920s and 1930s…………………………………………..29 3.2 20th-century genre literature………………………………………………….34 3.3 winners of the nobel prize in literature……………………………………..36 conclusion…………………………………………....................................40 references…………………………………………………………………42 introduction american literature is the literature written or produced in the area of the united states and its preceding colonies. although its history is noticeably shorter than the history of the literature of european and asian countries, since the second half of the 19th century, american literature has gained wide development and …
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d, the state of yugoslavia. writers react to all these historical events, including in america. new styles and works that demonstrate them are the product of the influence of these historical events. they try to analyze the experience, draw conclusions. the aim of the work is to study the main directions of the us literature in the first half of the 20th century and their representatives. the object of the study is american literature. the subject of the study is works written in the first half of the 20th century in the united states. to fulfill the intended goal, the following tasks are set: 1) to study the situation in society at this stage in history; 2) to trace the interrelation of historical events and their reflections in the literature; 3) to distinguish the main literary styles and describe their main features and representatives. chapter i the most popular literary …
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ung man standing on the threshold of life and challenging it . the first novel called «sister carrie» (1900) was not pleasant to society, it was forbidden as immoral, and the author was officially recognized as the «shame of america», which plunged dreiser into poverty. in «sister carrie» dreiser portrayed a changing society, writing about a young woman who flees rural life for the city and struggles with poverty, complex relationships with men, and prostitution. the next novel called «jennie gerhardt» and published in 1911 was a mirror image of the deceived wealth of carrie. the theme of business, the subject of becoming a businessman became central to the trilogy «the financier» (1912), «the titan» (1914), «the stoic» (1947), which were written under the influence of nietzsche's ideas. «an american tragedy» (1925) is a novel about the death of two lovers, which was the result of their desire to achieve …
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nce of the «tradition of refinement» was clearly weakened. in the new realistic works, in addition to social criticism, the hero-victim of social conditions was depicted. j. london was a supporter of not a "mundane" realism based on everyday plausibility, but a realism of poetic, animated romance, exalting the reader over everyday life. london in his stories gives a different type of hero - an active man, asserting himself through energy, resourcefulness and courage. j. london’s poetic realism does not prevent the writer from exploring life. in 1902, the writer goes on a business trip to london, and the result is the book «people of the abyss». in 1904, london goes to the russo-japanese war as a correspondent. rebellious moods were expressed in the novel-utopia called «the iron heel» (1907). that year london also travels on its own yacht built according to its designs. the main result of the trip …
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uses specific means of individualization of heroes (southern eloquence, slang, reception of oral story, peculiar humor); the main motives of his production are the motif of fate, sin, rejection of history or from ancestors, which results are the terrible consequences; biblical allusions. faulkner's achievements are the use of regional mythology (american south), a tragicomic understanding of history, romantic-symbolic thinking. from the early 1920s to the outbreak of world war ii, when he left for california, faulkner published 13 novels and many short stories. such a body of work formed the basis of his reputation and led to his being awarded the nobel prize at age 52. faulkner's prodigious output, mainly driven by an obscure writer's need for money, includes his most celebrated novels such as «the sound and the fury» (1929), «as i lay dying» (1930), «light in august» (1932), and «absalom, absalom!» (1936). faulkner was also a prolific writer …

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contents introduction……………………………………………………………….3 chapter i the most popular literary styles and their representatives 1.2 american novel of the first half of the 20th century………………………….4 1.2 the works of the writers of a «lost generation»……………………………..7 1.3 absurdity in the writings of the first half of the 20th century………………..10 chapter ii twentieth century american drama fiction and detective genre 2.1 dramatic works……………………………………………………………….14 2.2 american poetry………………………………………………………………19 2.3 american detective fiction in the 20th centur……………………………….24 chapter iii english literature of 20th century 3.1 modernism in the 1920s and 1930s…………………………………………..29 3.2 20th-century genre literature………………………………………………….34 3.3 winners of the nobel prize in literature……………………………………..36 conclusion……………………...

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