| Title: | Literary Trends and Criticism in Post-War British Fiction |
| Author: | Stăncuța Ramona Dima-Laza |
| Publication: | Studia Universitatis Petru Maior. Philologia, 13, p. 308 |
| p-ISSN: | 1582-9960 |
| Publisher: | Universitatea Petru Maior |
| Place: | Târgu Mureș |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Abstract: | The present paper displays a few aspects characteristic for the major literary trends, topics and authors in post-war British literature. Designed to provide a brief outline of the period, it is focused on modernist and postmodernist writers, emphasizing the authors’ interest for aesthetic and social matters, or for the modern novel regarded as a process of communication. The literary trends approached in this paper dwell upon some major themes such as the alienation of the individual, who tries to find comfort in a world that has lost its moral values and traditions or the destruction caused by technology. Modernist and postmodernist characteristics also mixed non-fiction with fantasy, blurring the lines of reality. If the writers of the 1950s were more concerned with older storytelling methods, the following decades brought about a change in the narrative climate of the epoch and the new writers revived the novel and employed different literary styles. |
| Key words: | criticism, literature, trends, realism, fiction |
| Language: | English |
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