Unit 1: The Setting of the Modern Age

• Chapter 1: The Setting from 'The Modern English Literature' by A C Ward

• 20th Century (Overview)

• Edwardian and Georgian Literature - and - isms, movements and other trends

• Some -isms

• Characteristics of the 20th century literature (Second World War and after)

• The Literary Modernism / Modernist Literature

• Literary Movements - Modernism and other movements

• Modernism - Peter Barry

• Understanding Modernism and Postmodernism

• Dystopian Literature

• Representation of 'India' in the 20th Cen European Literature

• Fantasy and Religion in the 20th Cen Literature

• Video Resources:

  • Modernism and English Literature

  • Introduction to Modernism

• Questions: Unit 1

Unit 2: Trends and Movements

Modernism

Literary Movements - Modernism and other movements

Stream of Consciousness

Avant Grade Movements

Expressionism

Absurdism

Surrealism

Post Modernism

Dada Movement

Article on Dadaism

Comedy of Menace

Comedy of Menace 1

Theatre of Absurd

Quiz - Check your Understanding

Unit 3: War Poetry

Selected War Poems

Siegfried Sassoon

The Hero - Siegfried Sassoon

Wilfred Owen

Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen

Rupert Brooke

The Soldier - Rupert Brooke

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

The Fear - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Ivor Gurney

The Target - Ivor Gurney

World War I - Facts

Detailed blog with Quiz

Unit - 4: Drama – Absurd, Comedy of Menace

The Theatre of Absurd

Comedy of Menace

Comedy of Menace - The Birthday Party

The Birthday Party - Setting - Characters

Theatre of Absurd

The Birthday Party - Play

Quiz

Question Bank