ANGLO-SAXON

MODERNISM
 FORMAL EXPERIMENTATION

The writers and poets sought to challenge literary traditions.

In Instead of following a linear narrative structure, the writers wrote fragmented and
ambiguous stories that reflected the complexity and uncertainty of modern life.
T. S. Eliot and Erza Proud used complex images and metaphors, innovative language,
and non-linear structures.
 Use of techniques such as juxtaposition,
fragmentation and discontinuity.
experimental techniques: Interior monologue, the
parody and the mix literary genres.
 VIRGINIA WOOLF
( January 25, 1882, London, England—died March 28, 1941)

original name in full Adeline Virginia

Stephen.
English writer whose novels, through
their nonlinear approaches to
narrative, exerted a major influence on
the genre.
While she is best known for her novels,
especially Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To
the Lighthouse (1927).
Woolf also wrote pioneering essays on
artistic theory, literary history,
women’s writing, and the politics of
power.
 NOTABLE WORKS:
“A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN” “BETWEEN THE ACTS” “FLUSH”

“JACOB’S ROOM” “KEW GARDENS”

”FRESHWATER”
 Today, much of Woolf's work today is read
and interpreted through a feminist lens,
especially his literary essays, such as Una
habitación propia and Tres guineas. However,
his legacy is also tainted by his tumultuous
battle against mental disorders throughout
his life, which ended with his suicide in March
1941.
 MOVEMENT / STYLE:

MODERNISM

One of the most famous authors of the 20th century

 THOMAS STEARNS
ELIOT
(sant luis, 1888- london 1965)

English poet, critic and playwright

Vivienne Haigh-Wood (1915-1947),
Esmé Valerie Fletcher (1957-1965)
Graduated with honors from Harvard
and in 1916 completed his doctoral
thesis.
Thomas worked as a teacher, as a clerk
at Lloyd's Bank and as an editor for
"Egoist" magazine.
In 1948 he was awarded the Nobel
Prize for Literature and the Order of
Merit, as well as the United States
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.

01
 WORKS
FOUR QUARTETS
THE WASTE
(1943)
LAND(1922)

434 verses that in Eastern and

The poems are
their original Series of scenes Western
divided into five
version had more and images where mysticism
sections.
than 800 the author's voice and

does not intervene, philosophy.
but whose
Each poem is
Decline of his implications and associated with
Each of the one of the four
time and the resolutions are
poems refers classical
exhausted moral developed through
to a fundamental
situation of numerous
geographical elements: air, earth,
Europe, opening contrasts and
location with water and fire.
the way to future analogies
strong
existentialism

religious
significance.

02
 WORKS
THE COCKTAIL
PARTY (1949)

It uses elements of
Traditional satire the absurd to show
typical of British the viewer the
comedy isolation of the
human condition.

Deep and Another recurring

philosophical theme is the
introspection character's
about human Christian
relationships martyrdom.

 WORKS
THE COCKTAIL
PARTY (1949)

It uses elements of
Traditional satire the absurd to show
typical of British the viewer the
comedy isolation of the
human condition.

Deep and Another recurring

philosophical theme is the
introspection character's
about human Christian
relationships martyrdom.

Curious fact: His collection of poems “Old Possum's Book Of Handy Cats” (1939) inspired composer Andrew
Lloyd Weber to create the well-known musical “Cats”.