Postmodern Drama: The New Theatre
Introduction to Postmodern Drama The drama of the post-war period shares a common spirit with the novels and poetry from the 1950s…
Literary Movements
Poetry in Post-modern Literature
Surrealism Between the Auden group of poets of the 1930s and the Movement poets of the 1950s, there exists a group of forties poet…
Novels & Novelists in Post-Modern Literature
Post-War Novel After Hitler's devastation of Britain, the country was literally in ruins, torn apart by years of bombardment. The landscape of r…
Post-Modern Literature: Introduction, Theory, Background
Until the 1920s, the term modern meant new or contemporary, but after that, it referred to the period between the two World Wars (1914-1945). …
Major Themes in Waiting for Godot
Introduction: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett is a classic play of the 20th century that has had a profound impact on modern literature and the…
Transcendentalism in Literature, Major Writers, Works, and Themes
Introduction: The mid-19th century literary and philosophical movement known as transcendentalism was idealistic. The first gatherings of visionarie…
Greek Idealism
In short: The material world is merely a byproduct of our senses, our representations, and our perceptions, according to the idealist philosophers, …
What is Modern Poetry?
Background of the Modernism: Following the First World War (28 July 1914 - 11 November 1918) the mass destructions, loss of about 40 million human …