W.H. Auden

1. Postmodern British literature : “Welcome to the Literary Funhouse: Postmodernism’s First Wave of Chaos, Control, and Cleverness”

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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 […]

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4. Modernist literature between wars “Ashes, Absurdities, and Atomic Echoes: Literature Between the Wars and the Void”

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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

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3. Modernist literature between World Wars : After the Guns Fell Silent

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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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2. Modernist literature and World War I (1914–1919)

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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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