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A Conservative Revolution: British Literature of the 1950s: Modernism for Socialist Realists

A Conservative Revolution: British Literature of the 1950s: Modernism for Socialist Realists

Tyson, Peter K.

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN13: 9798600030428
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 17 2020
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This monograph is a revised, expanded and updated version of a series of lectures which I gave to Chinese students at Sun Yatsen University (Guangzhou) in which I tried to explain modern literature to students with very little background in post-1945 Western literary developments. I use the theoretical debate between Brecht and Lukács on Expressionism as my starting point for examining the differences between Realism and Modernism in British literature during the 1950s. This period was important for the emergence of a genuine working-class culture: the Angry Young Man, kitchen-sink drama, strong regional accents and dialects, new gritty cinema and powerful actors like Albert Finney, the son of a northern bookie. I analyse in detail six significant British dramas and six major novels by leading writers like Osborne, Wesker, Pinter, Barstow, Sillitoe and Golding. This book should appeal to anyone interested in literary history and literary theory.

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