BLURRING BOUNDARIES Flashcards

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an example of widespread strikes

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WINTER OF DISCONTENT 1979
link to Callaghan’s decision to impose a cap on pay rises

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basic tenets of Thatcherism

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  • to foster private entreprises
  • to impose a free-market ideology
    1979-1990
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nickname of M. Thatcher

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the “Iron Lady”

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Why does Thatcher’s popularity had waned by the end of the 1980s ?

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It was widely represented in the British population that Thatcherism helped the rich get richer while the poor where getting poorer

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A novel that describe the political environment ?

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What a carve up ! Jonathan Coe
It criticizes the way powerful lobbies managed to exert their far-reaching influence on the Thatcher government

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Quotation Postmodernism

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“Postmodernism continues the modernist critique of traditional realism but it try to go beyond or around or underneath modernism”
“A lot of postmodernist writing implies that whatever meaningful patterns we discern are wholly illusory, comforting fictions”.
David Lodge Working with Structuralism

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A salient feature of postmodernist fiction

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The ability to deride itself; in Small World, David Lodge present a mise en abyme of postmodernism using its own technique to better mock its excesses

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Author that uses magic realism ?

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Angela Carter
Jeanette Winterson
Salman Rushdie

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