twentieth century of english literature (1915-2000)

PPTX 12 pages 1.8 MB Free download

12 pages

FaylHub.uz

Download via Telegram

Size 1.8 MB

File type PPTX

Pages 12

Updated Dec 2025

Page preview (5 pages)

Scroll down 👇

1 / 12

twentieth century of english literature (1915-2000) lecturer : madina madiyeva the twenties of the twentieth century. the 1920s were not a tranquil (sokin) period for britain. massive unemployment was created by the return of hundreds of thousands of veterans to civilian life. english literature changed in both form and subject matter between the end of world war i in 1918 and the beginning of world war ii in 1939. the terrible destruction of world war i left many people with the feeling that society was falling apart. the 20th century english literature is remarkable for a great diversity of artistic values and artistic methods. the works of such writers as h. f. wells, bernard shaw, john galsworthy, arnold bennet, joseph conrad, e.m. forster, katherine mansfield showed an earnest (jiddiy, muhim) desire to express the feelings and thoughts of the british people. english literature in the 1930s and 1940s a new …

2 / 12

rt for literature. at twenty-one, he published his first work “mosada”, a drama written in verse (she’r). during the 1890s and 1900s he published many volumes of poems, which were symbolic in manner, drawing his imagery from irish myth and folklore. the most important collections of that period were: “the wandering of oisis” (1891), “the wind among the reeds” (1899), “the rose” (1903), “green helmet and other poems” (1912). william butler yeats (1865-1939) w.b.yeats contributed a great deal to the irish national theatre. writing for the stage impressed yeats with the importance of precise (tushunarli, ravon), spare language. his best known plays are “the countess cathleen” (1892), “deirdre” (1907). the latter derived from celtic mythology. during the 1920s yeats became more prominent in both policy and literature. he became a senator in the irish free state in 1922 and in 1923 received the noble prize for literature. in 1925 yeats …

3 / 12

ished only in 1914. in 1916 his partly autobiographical novel “a portrait of the artist as a young man” and in 1922 his most famous novel “ulysses” were published. the remaining seventeen years of his life joyce worked on his next novel “finnegans wake” (1939). this book carried the stylistic experimentation of “ulysses” further. virginia woolf (1882-1941) virginia woolf was born in a large and talented family. her father, sir leslie stephen, was a distinguished literary critic and historian. she was educated at home by her father . after his death she moved to london with her brother and sister. their homes in the bloomsbury district, near the british museum, became the meeting places of the so-called “bloomsbury group”, a famous group of intellectuals. one of the members of the group was the writer leonard woolf, whom she married in 1912. in 1917 they founded the hogarth press, which published …

4 / 12

rried in 1918. by the end of the war, she had become an invalid, moving from climate to climate for relief from uncurable tuberculosis. she died in france on january 9,1923, at the age of thirty four. katherine mansfield (1888 - 1923) she began to write at an early age. her contribution to english literature mainly makes the form of short stories. katherine mansfield’s first stories and sketches were published in the periodical “the new age”, to which she became a regular contributor. her first story “prelude” written in 1918 made her famous. her second book, the collection of stories “bliss and other stories” was published in 1921. her writing is objective, but the reader can easily feel her sympathies and antipathies. she is very sensitive to class distinctions, and her sympathy is always on the side of the poor. any kind of selfishness and pretence on the part of …

5 / 12

ative culture suppressed. yeats’s early poems and his book on irish folk tales, “the celtic twilight” (1893), were in part political acts. w.b.yeats contributed a great deal to the irish national theatre. writing for the stage impressed yeats with the importance of precise, spare language. his best known plays are “the countess cathleen” (1892), “deirdre” (1907). the latter derived from celtic mythology. during the 1920s yeats became more prominent in both policy and literature. he became a senator in the irish free state in 1922 and in 1923 received the noble prize for literature. in 1925 yeats published his major philosophical and historical prose work “a vision”. while many poets produce their finest work during their early years, yeats was one of those rare poets who created their greatest poems after the age of fifty. he began his poetic career as a romantic and finished it as a poet of …

Want to read more?

Download all 12 pages for free via Telegram.

Download full file

About "twentieth century of english literature (1915-2000)"

twentieth century of english literature (1915-2000) lecturer : madina madiyeva the twenties of the twentieth century. the 1920s were not a tranquil (sokin) period for britain. massive unemployment was created by the return of hundreds of thousands of veterans to civilian life. english literature changed in both form and subject matter between the end of world war i in 1918 and the beginning of world war ii in 1939. the terrible destruction of world war i left many people with the feeling that society was falling apart. the 20th century english literature is remarkable for a great diversity of artistic values and artistic methods. the works of such writers as h. f. wells, bernard shaw, john galsworthy, arnold bennet, joseph …

This file contains 12 pages in PPTX format (1.8 MB). To download "twentieth century of english literature (1915-2000)", click the Telegram button on the left.

Tags: twentieth century of english li… PPTX 12 pages Free download Telegram