Pre twentieth century authors biography
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Ranking the 10 Best American Authors from the 20th Century
Over the last couple years, I have put together several rankings for books. I started with the best Ernest Hemingway books, then the best Mitch Albom books and the best John Steinbeck books. I made a list of best books for writer’s to read, and also a list of the best recent non-fiction books that I read. For a while now I have wanted to put together a list of best American authors from the 20th century, since that era produced so many heavy hitters, but ranking authors, I found early in the process, was far more difficult than books.
For one thing, when you are ranking the best books by one author, the scope is fairly narrow. All of the books generally share the same style. When you get into ranking authors, however, a long list of variables comes into play — time period, style, personality, genre, production.
I have spent the last several months researching these authors, reading their work and trying t
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6 Twentieth Century: Major Writers and Works
Dr. Sruti Ramachandran
The twentieth century witnessed a plethora of literary works which were radical as compared to those of the previous century. The chaos which erupted with the World Wars engelskt ord för att något är skadat eller förstört the human conscience across the world. Earlier concepts and influences were shaped by a generation shell shocked bygd the aftermath of the wars. Hence, the attitude and outlook of the writers of the time was rather like a forceful projectile.
The period fryst vatten generally classified into modern and postmodern period. The era also saw the emergence of new literary techniques. And hence the literature of the twentieth century stands like a towering figure over other literary periods. In A Glossary of Literary Terms M.H. Abrams has listed major writers pertaining to the age. “Among the notable writers are the poets W.B.Yeats, Wilfred Owen, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Josef Conrad, James Joyce, D.H.Lawrence, Dorothy Richards
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Twentieth-century English literature
Literary works written in the English language in the twentieth-century
Main articles: American literature, Scottish literature, Irish literature, and Welsh literature in English
This article is focused on English-language literature rather than the literature of England, so that it includes writers from Scotland, Wales, and the whole of Ireland, as well as literature in English from former British colonies. It also includes, to some extent, the United States, though the main article for that is American literature.
Modernism is a major literary movement of the first part of the twentieth-century. The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature.
Irish writers were especially important in the twentieth-century, including James Joyce and later Samuel Beckett, both central figures in the Modernist movement. Americans, like poets T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound and novelist William Faulkner