Notable Figures in 20th Century Literature
Explore the key figures and themes in 20th-century literature, including renowned authors like James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, William Golding, and John Steinbeck. Delve into their works, influences, and contributions to the literary landscape of the time, ranging from modernism to social commentary and experimentation with narrative techniques.
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Society World wars Conflicts/ like 1.theracial suffering inAmerican
Literature 1.themes 2. women s wave paved the ways for many women s writings 3.media
JamesJoyce (1882-1941) Irish Wrote aboutDublin Dubliners,A portraitoftheArtist asAYoungMan Ulysses/masterpiece/stream ofconsciousness
VirginiaWoolf Experimental InnerLife/heavilyinfluencedbyJamesJoyce Stream ofconsciousness A Room of one s own (1929)/ talked about if a woman has her own money Tothe lighthouse(1927) Mrs.Dalloway(1925) Committed suicide
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) Leader ofthe modernpoetry Freeverse TheWaste Land/ moderncrises andthe lack Ofhumanity
GeorgeOrwell(1903-1950) Injustice TheAnimal Farm 1984 Satire against the political and social systems of the modernageandregimes.
Ernest Hemingway AmericanWriter Blamedhismother forfather s death The oldManandtheSe WW I/ambulance driver/he badlywounded Fear ofdeath Mainthemes: deaththat hasaspecialvalue, violence, deepseafishing Worked asajournalist after the war Nobel Prize in 1954 Drinking Suicide/ he suffered from a hyper attention diabetes ended to depression. He feared physical decline and he chose to commit suicide inhishome in1961
WilliamGolding(1911 1993) aBritish novelist, playwright, andpoet. Bestknownforhis novel Lordofthe Flies, Nobel Prize in Literature awarded the Booker Prize for fiction in 1980 for his novel Rites ofPassage
JohnSteinbeck (1902-1968) anAmericanauthor. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keensocialperception. He hasbeen called"agiantofAmerican letters ThePulitzerPrize-winningTheGrapesofWrath(1939) Hisworksfrequently exploredthe themes offateandinjustice
Henry James (1843 1916) was an American-British author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realismand literary modernism. the brother of renowned philosopher and psychologist William James The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and The Wings of the Dove James explores this clash of personalitiesand cultures, in stories of personal relationships in which power is exercised well or badly. His protagonists were often young American women facing oppression or abuse
Toni Morrison(1931-) Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988forBeloved herfirst novel,The Bluest Eye(1970) Morrison's second novel Sula (1973), about a friendship between two blackwomen In2012, sheresponded toaquestion about thedifference between black andwhitefeminists inthe1970s. "Womanistsiswhatblackfeminists used tocallthemselves
AliceWalker(1944) anAmericannovelist,shortstory writer,poet,and activist. She wrote the novel The Color Purple (1982), for which she won the National BookAward for hardcover fiction,and the PulitzerPrizefor Fiction. Activismand politicalcriticism metMartin Luther KingJr. activist intheCivilRightsMovement On March 8, 2003, International Women's Day, on the eve of the Iraq War, Walker was arrested with 26 others women of colorand the feministmovement at "the intersectionof race, class, and genderoppression
