Literary Currents Flashcards
the most famous writer of the Labour Novel is _______, whose novels became an important milestone in the history of English novels about the life of the working class.
Alan Sillitoe
Philosophic Novel’s main representative is
Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch says that
literature assumed certain tasks which had earlier been dealt with by philosophy. truly philosophic is such a novel, which does not theorize about human life, but depicts a unique human personality. the novel should tell the truth about human.
who is the representative of the Beat Generation and what is his novel about…
Jack Kerouac. his novel ‘On the Road’ is about a group of friends who enjoy sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll as they travel across the US.
who is the representative of the Beat Generation and what is his novel about…
Jack Kerouac. his novel ‘On the Road’ is about a group of friends who enjoy sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll as they travel across the US.
who is the representative of the Beat Generation and what is his novel about…
Jack Kerouac. his novel ‘On the Road’ is about a group of friends who enjoy sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll as they travel across the US.
who is the representative of the Beat Generation and what is his novel about…
Jack Kerouac. his novel ‘On the Road’ is about a group of friends who enjoy sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll as they travel across the US.
what does Beat Generation mean?
tired generation- to express the weariness and dissatisfaction young people felt at the time with the spread of capitalism and puritanical middle-class values.
examples of Angry Young Men’s fiction
John Wain - Hurry on Down
John Osborne - Look Back in Anger
which was Kingsley Amis’s first novel and what does it depict?
Lucky Jim - the protagonist is a young intellectual man, whose adventures are conveyed in a picaresque Fabula and comic situations.
what representatives Angela Carter and her collection of short stories The Bloody Chamber:
Magic Realism;
A retelling of classic fairy tales with macabre irony and feminist themes, it transforms the female characters from passive, colorless and asexual to assertive, sexual, and adventurous heroines.
Graham Greene (his works)
he developed Dramatic Novels and created action/suspense novels, considering that the novel is dramatic in its nature.
The Hear of the Matter = the general meaning and contents of any chapter are exposed by means of dialogues.
The Power and the Glory = the story of a drunken priest who is tormented by his own cowardice and after one act of heroism, if executed by the group of firing squad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
exploring greek mythology and ert, he puts forth the thesis that there are two powers in human mind: Apollonian and Dionysian. closeness to nature, instincts, and passions are the features of Dionysian element in human. his theory rejects progress and declares myth as the truth. according to him, the mystery of life lies in ‘the will to power’. there is the need of a person/people - the so called super human/s, who is or are called for changing society.
