ENGLISH LITERATURE

The literature of the 20th century

Oscar Wilde The Picture of
Dorian Gray
o Impressionism in the novel
Literature of Modernism
James Joyce Ulysses,
Finnegans Wake
o

Stream of consciousness

o Parallels with Homers Odyssey

o Linguistic experiments
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
o Stream of consciousness
o Feminism, homosexuality
o Mentall illness and depression
William Faulkner The Sound
and The Fury
o Stream of consciousness and
other narrative techiques

o The relativism of time

William Goulding Lord of
the Flies
o The evil from within
Ernest Hemingway The Old
Man and The Sea
o Existetnialism
o Lost generation
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
Sylvia Plath Poetry
o Confessionism
Literature of

Postmodernism
Samuel Beckett Waiting for
Godot
o Theater of the Absurd
John Maxwell Cootzee Foe
o Postcolonialist literature

Other notable authors include

modernists: T.S. Eliot (The Wasteland),
Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby),
Salman Rushdie (The Satanic Verses),
Julian Barnes (Flauberts Parrot)

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Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
Opet sam to izvela
Jednom u svakih deset leta
To mi uspeva
Neka vrsta pokretnog uda,
moja put
sjajna kao nacistiki abaur
moje desno stopalo
Pritiska za hartiju
Moje lice bezlino,
fino jevrejsko rublje
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A ja nasmejana ena
Meni je tek trideseta
I kao maka
mogu devet puta da mrem
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Koliki milion niti
Gomila to krcka kikiriki
Gura se da vidi
Kako mi odvijaju ruku, noguVeliko svlaenje
Gospodo, dame
To su moje ruke
Moja kolena
Mogude da sam kost i koa
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Umiranje je
Vetina kao i sve ostalo
Ja to izvodim maestralno
Izvodim tako da izgleda pakleno.
Izvodim tako da izgleda stvarno.
Moglo bi se redi roena sam za to
Lako je to izvesti u samici.
Lako je to izvesti i ostati gde si.
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Iz pepela
Ustajem s kosama crvenim
I mukarce kao zrak tamanim.