Modern + Post Modern

Question 1

Rhymer’s Club

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The Rhymers’ Club was a group of London-based male poets, founded in 1890 by W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys.

Question 2

Rhymer’s used to meet at

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They met at the London pub ‘Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese’ in Fleet Street and in the ‘Domino Room’ of the Café Royal.[2]

Question 3

Irish Dramatic Movement/ Irish Theatre

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William Butler Yeats, Lady Augusta Gregory and Edward Martin in 1898
JM Synge

Question 4

Auden group

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Irish writers active in the 1930s that included W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood, and sometimes Edward Upward and Rex Warner. They were sometimes called simply the Thirties poets

Question 5

Georgian Poets

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The group included Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, D. H. Lawrence, Walter de la Mare, Siegfried Sassoon

Question 6

Harlem Renaissance

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Aaron Douglas (painter), Langston Hughes (author), Zora Neale Hurston (author), Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday (Jazz musicians).

Question 7

War Poets

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The ‘War Poets’ constitute an imperative presence in modern British literature with significant writers such as Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, David Jones, Ivor Gurney, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, and Isaac Rosenberg.

Question 8

Lost Generation

Answer 8

Notable figures of the Lost Generation include F. Scott Fitzgerald,[22] Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot,[23] Ezra Pound, Jean Rhys[24] and Sylvia Beach.[25]

Question 9

Bloomsbury Group

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Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey.

Question 10

Stream of Consciousness

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“Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf & Dorothy Richardson.

Question 11

Southern Agrarian

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John Crowe Ransom

were a group of twelve American writers, poets, essayists, and novelists, all with roots in the Southern United States,

Question 12

Southern Agrarian

Answer 12

John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate,

were a group of twelve American writers, poets, essayists, and novelists, all with roots in the Southern United States,

Question 13

Black Art Movement

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1960s, founder: Amiri Baraka

Question 14

Existentialism

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1960s. Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Albert Camus.

Question 15

Agitprop

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Agitation propaganda.
political propaganda, especially the communist propaganda used in Soviet Russia, that is spread to the general public through popular media such as literature, plays, pamphlets, films, and other art forms with an explicitly political message.

Question 16

Theatre of cruelty

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Associated with Antonin Artaud who wrote Theatre and its double- 1939

Question 17

Epic theatre

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The term "epic theatre" comes from Erwin Piscator who coined it during his first year as director of Berlin's Volksbühne. 
Erwin Piscator
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Bertolt Brecht

Question 18

Angry Young Man

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John Osborne and Kingsley Amis

Question 19

Theatre of absurd

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Critic Martin Esslin coined the term in his 1960 essay “The Theatre of the Absurd”
Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, Arthur Adamov, Harold Pinter, Luigi Pirandello, Tom Stoppard, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Miguel Mihura, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Fernando Arrabal, Václav Havel, Edward Albee, Malay Roy Choudhury, Tadeusz Różewicz, Sławomir Mrożek, N.F. Simpson, and Badal Sarkar

Question 20

Theatre of oppressed

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The Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) describes theatrical forms that the Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal first elaborated in the 1970s, initially in Brazil and later in Europe. Boal was influenced by the work of the educator and theorist Paulo Freire.

Question 21

In the theatre of the oppressed, the audience becomes

Answer 21

spekt- actors

Question 22

Beat Generation

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Allen Ginsberg’s Howl (1956), William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch (1959), and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957)

Question 23

Movement Poets

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The Movement was a term coined in 1954 by J. D. Scott, literary editor of The Spectator, to describe a group of writers including Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, D. J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn and Robert Conquest.

Question 24

Windrush Generation

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term used to describe the waves of West Indian migration to England in the postwar years

Question 25

Macspaunday

Answer 25

Macspaunday
“MacSpaunday” was a name invented by Roy Campbell, in his Talking Bronco (1946), to designate a composite figure made up of the four poets:

Louis MacNeice (“Mac”)
Stephen Spender (“sp”)
W. H. Auden (“au-n”)
Cecil Day-Lewis (“day”)