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    [1] In the first half of the 20th century, modernist literature emerged in response to World War I and the Russian Revolution. Writers felt the need for new approaches to address humanity's problems. [2] Major modernist authors included Ernest Hemingway, known for his lucid prose style and works like A Farewell to Arms; George Orwell, who critiqued totalitarianism in novels like Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four; and Virginia Woolf, who pioneered stream of consciousness techniques in Mrs. Dalloway and other novels. [3] Other significant modernist writers were D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, whose influential work Ulysses employed

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    [1] In the first half of the 20th century, modernist literature emerged in response to World War I and the Russian Revolution. Writers felt the need for new approaches to address humanity's problems. [2] Major modernist authors included Ernest Hemingway, known for his lucid prose style and works like A Farewell to Arms; George Orwell, who critiqued totalitarianism in novels like Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four; and Virginia Woolf, who pioneered stream of consciousness techniques in Mrs. Dalloway and other novels. [3] Other significant modernist writers were D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, whose influential work Ulysses employed

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    Novels in The First Half of 20Th Century

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    [1] In the first half of the 20th century, modernist literature emerged in response to World War I and the Russian Revolution. Writers felt the need for new approaches to address humanity's problems. [2] Major modernist authors included Ernest Hemingway, known for his lucid prose style and works like A Farewell to Arms; George Orwell, who critiqued totalitarianism in novels like Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four; and Virginia Woolf, who pioneered stream of consciousness techniques in Mrs. Dalloway and other novels. [3] Other significant modernist writers were D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, whose influential work Ulysses employed

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    NOVELS IN THE FIRST HALF OF 20TH

    CENTURY
    LITERARY TRENDS OF 20 TH
    CENTURY
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    • IT WAS A NEW WAY OF THINKING ABOUT EVERYTHING FROM ART TO LITERATURE, RELIGION, ARCHITECTURE,
    MUSIC, POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY AND EVEN CONVENTIONAL MORALITY.

    • THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND MODERNISM WAS THE IDEA THAT EVERYTHING HAD TO BE RETHOUGHT. THE
    CARNAGE AND BRUTALITY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION RESULTED IN A
    WIDESPREAD BELIEF THAT HUMANITY NEEDED NEW APPROACHES TO HEAL THE HUMAN CONDITION.
    MAJOR THEMES OF 20TH CENTURY
    • ANTICOLONIALISM

    • SOCIALISM

    • NATIONALISM

    • I NDUSTRIALIZATION

    • .NUCLEAR WEAPONS

    • GLOBALIZATION
    MAIN FEATURES OF 20TH CENTURY NOVEL

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    THE SOCIO- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND (1901-1950)
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    NOVELS
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    GRAHAM GREENE

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    CATHOLIC NOVELS

    • NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

    • THE MAN WITHIN

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    THRILLERS MYSTERY SUSPENSE THE MINISTRY OF FEAR

    THE POWER AND THE GLORY


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    ADAPTED FOR. FILM OR
    TELEVISION

    WORKS
    • THE MAN WITHIN
    • STAMBOUL TRAIN
    • IT'S A BATTLEFIELD (1934)
    • A GUN FOR SALE
    • THE POWER AND THE GLORY
    ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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    • HIS SUCCINCT AND LUCID PROSE STYLE EXERTED A POWERFUL INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN
    AND BRITISH FICTION IN THE 20TH CENTURY.
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    MORAL AMBIGUITIES

    RHETORIC
    WORKS

    • IN OUR TIME
    • THE SUN ALSO RISES
    • A FAREWELL TO ARMS
    • TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
    • FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
    GEORGE ORWELL
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    SOCIAL CRITICISM
    TOTALITARIANISM DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM

    • ANIMAL
    FARM NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
    UTOPIAN NOVEL TOTALITARIAN

    • DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON

    PROSE

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    ANIMAL
    FARM NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
    RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
    STALINISM TOTALITARIAN RULE
    WORKS

    • Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)


    • Animal farm (1945)
    • Burmese days (1934)
    D.H LAWRENCE

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    VIRGINIA WOOLF
    • SHE IS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PRACTITIONERS OF THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS TECHNIQUE.

    • SHE REJECTED THE LINEAR NARRATIVE MODE AND THE REALISM OF THE VICTORIAN NOVEL.

    • SHE FOCUSED ON THE WORKING OF THE MIND OF HER CHARATER AND LOOKED UPON THE VOLATILE
    CONSCIOUSNESS AS THE TRUE REALITY .

    • , THE VOYAGE OUT (1915)


    • JACOB’S ROOM (1922)
    • MRS. DALLOWAY (1925)
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    • NOVEL HOLISTIC
    JAMES JOYCE

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    • HIS WORKS ARE :
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    E.M FORSTER

    • INTELLECTUAL

    SKEPTICISM

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    ACUTE

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    WORKS CITED

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    • HTTPS://WWW.BRITANNICA.COM/ART/ENGLISH-LITERATURE/THE-20TH-CENTURY

    • HTTPS://WWW.INFOPLEASE.COM/ENCYCLOPEDIA/ARTS/ENGLISH-LIT/20TH-CENTURY-
    PLUS/ENGLISH-LITERATURE/THE-EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY
    THANK YOU

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