POST-MODERNISM (1940–2000)

T.S. Eliot Dorothy Richardson Ezra Pound

MODERNISTS
It came to
prominence after
World War II
POST-MODERN ENGLISH
LITERATURE = POST WAR
LITERATURE
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Post–modernism

Open choice between tradition

and experimentalism.
FORMS OF LITERATURE
NOVEL
Post-modern English literature novel is polyphonic.
Angela Carter and Fay Weldon
Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie
DRAMA
Kitchen sink realism
- British cultural movement
John Osborne's Look Back in Anger
(1956)
POETRY
The breakdown of the unity of English
CHARACTERISTICS

Intertextuality
Temporal Distortion