WRITERS AND TERMS TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH LIT. DH Lawrence 1885-1930 Brilliant, imaginative, and emotional Suffered from censorship and public condemnation.

WRITERS AND TERMS

TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH LIT

DH Lawrence 1885-1930

Brilliant, imaginative, and emotionalSuffered from censorship and public condemnationPortrays characters as victims of a restrictive societyPortrays nature as symbolic of what is vital in lifeWrote Sons and Lovers, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and

Women in Love: all dealt with relationshipsFelt the source of all knowledge in life was in man

and womanFelt there was a conflict between instinct, which he

saw as good, and education, which he saw as bad

Traveled with his German wife FriedaLived in New Mexico, England, Italy, and Australia

Died of tuberculosis Influenced by Freudian psychology

His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, and instinct.

Lawrence is now valued by many as a visionary thinker and significant representative of modernism in English literature.

The Rocking Horse Winner

Deals with conflict between instincts and education

Paul rides his horse to find a winnerWhispering increases after his mother gets moneyBassett is his first partnerHe loses on his first betWins on Malabar, his final pickHis mother’s heart is a little stoneShe thinks about her son; her instincts start to

kick inConflict between materialism and nature

William Butler Yeats’ Reading

http://youtu.be/cy4gFQwDficI will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

1892

“Snake”

Set in ItalySpeaker goes to water trough and meets a

snakeHe becomes intrigued by it and watches itThe voices of his education tell him to kill itHis instinct tells him to admire itHe listens to his education and throws

something at itHe says he has something to expiate…a

pettiness.

George Orwell (Eric Blair) 1903-1950 Born in India; from England

An English novelist and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism ,a passion for clarity in language and a belief in democratic socialism.

Orwell's influence on popular and political culture endures, and several of his neologisms along with the term Orwellian— a byword for totalitarian or manipulative social practices — have entered the vernacular

First published in the literary magazine New Writing in the autumn of 1936 and broadcast by

the BBC Home Service on 12 October 1948.

Orwell, the narrator writes of his experience as a police officer in Burma. He shoots an elephant, even though he knows he should not, in order to avoid being laughed at. He regrets his action.

The essay is also a condemnation of imperialism:

“When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.“

A narrative essay: his first famous piece.

Irish poet and playwright; revived Irish theatre

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Represents an escape from the stress of reality. Portrays the countryside as an idyllic refuge.

Uses assonance and alliteration.

Based on his grandparents’ farm in Ireland

William Butler Yeats 1865-1939

1888-1923 From New Zealand

Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield left for Great Britain in 1908 where she encountered Modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf with whom she became close friends. Her stories often focus on moments of disruption and frequently open rather abruptly. Among her most well-known stories are "The Garden Party,” "The Daughters of the Late Colonel," and "The Fly." During the First War Mansfield contracted extra pulmonary tuberculosis, which rendered any return or visit to New Zealand impossible and led to her death at the age of 34.

Katherine Mansfield

The light is central symbol

Conflicts:

1)Class vs Humanity

2)Rich vs Poor

3) Power

“I seen [sic] the little lamp.”

James Joyce1182-1941

Famous novelist and short story writerDublin, Ireland Works:DublinersUlyssesA Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManFinnegan’s Wake

Known for his stream-of-consciousness style.Considered to be one of the most influential Writers of the twentieth century

“Araby” is a carnival or bazaar that the narrator wants to attend in order to purchase a gift forMangan’s sister whom he barely knows.

He has an epiphany at the end: realizes the futility of his mission.

“Araby”

Everyone needs to escape

The priest: his books

Mangan’s sister: her religious retreats

His uncle: alcoholThe boy: his

fantasiesCoping with the

dreariness of reality is a theme.

The boy goes on a quest.

His views himself as a gallant knight on a noble quest.

Mangan’s sister is described with images of light and white.

The Quest