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Quick Access To the Four Master Scrolls Drama and Theatre in English Literature Poetry in English Literature Fiction and Short Stories in English Literature Non Fiction and Prose in English Literature Elements of Drama: Action, Conflict, and Catharsis In the context of English literature, drama refers to a genre of literary works that are intended […]
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Contemporary Literature 2013–2025 : From Pandemic to Platform, from Pronoun to Protest—How Fiction Survived the Algorithm and Found New Tongues From The Professor’s Desk Contemporary Literature 2013–2025 “The centre did not hold—but the sentence did.” Contemporary Literature 2013–2025, If the first twelve years of the millennium rewired literature’s form, the next decade and beyond
Contemporary Literature 2000–2012, From Post-9/11 Trauma to Global Talkbacks—The Era Where Literature Found New Skins, Screens, and Scream Chambers. From The Professor’s Desk In Contemporary Literature 2000–2012 “The millennium did not just tick over—it detonated.”With the collapse of the Twin Towers in 2001, the Western world, long insulated from the ravages of war on its
Postmodern British literature : From Literary Labyrinths to Culture Jams — The Era of Digital Doubt, Cultural Mashups, and Narratives That Know You’re Watching From The Professor’s Desk If the first wave of Postmodern literature looked inward — questioning truth, authorship, and narrative itself — the second wave turned outward, holding a cracked mirror to the
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Postmodern British literature : From Fragmentation to Irony—How English Literature Stopped Making Sense (On Purpose) From The Professor’s Desk Once upon a time, literature had rules. Stories had beginnings, middles, and ends. Heroes quested. Tragedies wept. Realism ruled. And then… the post-war world blew all that to bits—again. But this time, the pieces weren’t just
Literature between War and Whisper: The Final Phase of Modernism (1939–1959) From The Professor’s Desk When literature walks through the fire, it seldom comes out unburnt.The years 1939 to the late 1950s represent not a neat ending, but a scorched continuum of modernism — disillusioned by one war, scarred by another, and finally entrapped in
3. Modernism : After the Guns Fell Silent — Literature Between Wars A world trying to forget. A literature that refused to. From The Professor’s Desk The war was over. But the wound was not. Modernist literature between World Wars The year was 1919. Europe was exhausted—physically, spiritually, artistically. The battlefield had fallen quiet, but
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From The Professor’s Desk The Great War did not only kill men. It mutilated meaning. The year was 1914. The sun never set on the British Empire, and across Europe, proud nations paraded their flags to the rhythms of certainty and superiority. It was a world—arrogant, armored, and unsuspecting—marching straight into its own unmaking. In
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HOME History of English Literature Prose, Novel & Fiction The Literary Scholar’s WitNotes Poetry Appreciation MODERNISM: Literature in a Broken World (Modern Literature from 1901 to ~1955 — shaped by War, Science, Psychology, and Disillusionment) From The Professor’s Desk “A New Century Dawns — But With Strange Clouds” “The year was 1901. Victoria, the great
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From the Last Glow of Beauty to the First Shadows of Modern Doubt From The Professor’s Desk As the long Victorian century neared its close, the tone of its poetry grew more muted, its certainties more fragile. This was the realm of Late Victorian Poets and the Aesthetic Turn—a moment when verse turned inward, away
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