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Sunday, September 13, 2020

General characteristics of the 20th century literature


General characteristics of the 20th century literature:

Hello readers!

      The main intention of this blog is that to accomplish the task given by Dr. Dilip Barad sir, to summarize the general characteristics of the 20th century literature in your own words. So let's see....

  As we generally know that the year 1901,can be sought to mark the beginning of the modern age, for it is the death of queen Victoria may be taken to signify the end of the victorian age and the beginning of the modern age.

     The modern age is the most complex, complicated, baffing and revolutionary age in the history of the world. It is an age of most amazing astounding and unimaginable scientific discoveries inventions and advancement.

   In this age the major impact of world wars. The post war period was an era of "depression" And unemployment. A large number of books were written during and after world Wars
C. E. Montagu's  Disenchantment, Fiery Particles and Rough Justice
Richard Addington's Death of A Hero.

This age is also called as an age of anxiety and interrogation. The scientific revolution and rational thinking had shaken man's faith in the authority of Religion and church. Men and women showed an extraordinary enthusiasm for speculation, experiment and reform.

     Art For Life's Sake, at the turn of the new century came a number of writers who were sceptical in outlook and were not touched by reverence for custom and established order. They rejected the doctrine of "art for Art's sake". They evolved the creed of  "art for life's sake"

  In this age, the poor were no more helpless creatures. They  had grown conscious of their sad predicament. They posed a great challenge to the social conscience. They became the raw material of realistic novel and drama with or without purpose.

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