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Post-War Literature: Performer Shaping Ideas
Post-War Literature: Performer Shaping Ideas
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Performer Shaping Ideas
Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella,
Margaret Layton © 2021
Post-war literature
2. 1950s fiction
Angry Young Men
3. Dystopian novels
The dark side of human nature is explored in William
Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies (1954).
4. Fantasy novels
5. American novels
5. American novels
6. ‘The Movement’
‘The Movement’ dominated the 1950s.
They:
Philip Larkin.
7. ‘The Group’
The poets belonging to ‘the Group’:
• met in London;
9. Irish poetry
Seamus Heaney.