The Post Modern period (1939- -)
The literary trends of the Modern Age started changing after 1939 when the Second World War devastated the social values. After 1939 the new trends in English literature come to light. The writers of the age continued the experimentation of the modernist writer but at the same time reacted against many of the ideas implicit in modernist literature. Moreover, these writers kept on changing their theories of art. Consequently, it has become very difficult to specify the exact characteristics of post – modern Period. It is believed that the Post – modern age has not yet ended.
Main Literary Features of the Age
Major Authors and their works of the post-modern period
1. George Orwell
Birth: 25 June, 1903, Bengal Presidency, British India
Death: 21 January 1950, London, England
Important Information:
-He was a Novelist, Political writer and journalist
-His full name is Eric Arthur Blair
Famous Novel:
Nineteen Eighty Four – a dystopian Novel
Animal form – An allegorical novella
Homage to Catalonia – written on Spanish civil war
Burmese days
A clergyman’s Daughter
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
2. Doris May Lessing
Birth: 22 October 1919 Persia (Now Iran)
Death: 17 November 2013, London, England
Important information:
-His pen Name was Jane Somers
-British women Novelist, Playwright, Librettist, and Poet
-He was awarded Nobel Prize in 2007
Famous Novels:
The Grass is singing
Retreat to innocence
The Golden Notebook
Briefing for a Descent into Hell
The summer before the Dark
The Good Terrorist
Canopus in Argos
The Cleft
Landlocked
Memoirs of a survivor
Children of Violence
The Cleft
The Sweetest Dream
The Ripple from the storm
Famous Dramas:
Play with a Tiger
Playing with the Game (Comic)
Each His Own wilderness
Other authors and their works of post - modern Period
Henry Miller (1891 -1980):
The Rosy Crucifixion (1949 - 59), a trilogy
John Steinbeck (1902 - 68):
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
East of Eden (1952)
Graham Greene (1904 - 91):
The Heart of the Matter (1948)
The End of the Affair (1951)
Jean- Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (1905 - 1980): A French philosopher, playwright, novelist and political activist. He was one of the exponents of the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenological.
Nausea (1938)
Being and Nothingness: an Essay on Phenomenological
Ontology (1943)
No Exit (1944)
The Roads to Freedom (1949)
Philip Larkin (1922 - 1985):
The Less Deceived (1955)
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)
High windows (1974)
Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999):
Catch - 22 (1961)
John James Osborne (1929 - 94):
Look Back in Anger (1956)
The Entertainer (1957)
Epitaph for George Dillon (1957)
Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998):
The Hawk in the Rain (1957)
Crow (1970)
Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008):
The Birthday Party (1958)
The Homecoming (1965)
The Care Taker (1960)
John Simmons (1930…)
Giles Coat – Boy (1966)
Sabbatical (1982)
The Sot – Weed Factor (1960)
Derek Alton Walcott (1930…)
Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967)
Omeros (1990)
Chinua Achebe (1930 - 2013): Full name Albert Chinualumogu Achebe
No Longer at Ease (1960)
A Man of the People (1966)
Things Fall Apart (1958)
Arrow of God (1964)
Toni Morrison (1931…)
The Bluest Eye (1970)
Beloved (1987)
Sylvia Plath (1932- 63):
The Colossus (1960)
Crossing the Water (1971)
John Hoyer Updike (1932 - 2009):
Rabbit, Rum (1960)
Couples (1968)
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932…)
A House of Mr. Biswas (1961)
Wole Soyinka (1934…)
The Lion and the jewel (1959)
The Interpreters (1965)
Idanre and Other Poems (1967)
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1937…)
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)
Mason and Dixon (1997)
Seamus Justin Heaney (1939 - 2013):
Selected Poems 1966 – 1987 (1990)
Preoccupations (1980)
Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005):
The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
Seize the Day (1956)
Jerome David Salinger (1919 - 2010):
The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
Franny and Zooey (1961)
R. K. Narayan (1906 - 2001): full name- Rasipuram Krishnaswami
Iyer Narayanaswmi
The Dark Room (1938)
The Guide (1958)
The Financial Expert (1952)
A Tiger for Malgudi (1983)
Samuel Beckett (1906 - 89), a French Dramatist:
Waiting for Godot (1952)
Happy Days (1661)
Endgame (1955)
Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 - 1973):
The Age of anxiety (1948)
William Gerald Golding (1911 - 93), a novelist:
Load of the Flies (1954)
The Scorpion God (1971)
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960):
The outsider or The Stranger (1942)
The Plague (1947)
Dylan Marlais Thomas: (1914 - 53):
The Map of love (1939)
Under Milk Wood (1954)
Deaths and Entrances (1946)
Arthur Asher Miller (1915 - 2005):
Death of a Salesman (1949)
The Price (1968)
After the Fall (1964)
Ahmed Salman Rusdie (1947…)
Midnight’s Children (1981)
Shame (1983)
The Satanic Verses (1988)
Some other Contemporary Writers and their Works
Authors |
Works |
Vikram Seth (Indian) |
A suitable boy |
Gunnar Myrdal |
Asian Drama |
Monica Ali |
Brick Lane |
Alexander Solshenitsin |
Cancer World |
Boris Paslernak |
Dr. Zivago |
J. K. Rowling |
Harry Potter series |
Abul Kalam Azad |
India Wins Freedom |
Aldous Huxley |
Point Counter Point |
Alex Haley |
Roots (Novel) |
J. K. Galbraith |
The Affluent Society |
Bertold Brecht |
The Cowcasion Chalkcircle (play) |
Arundhuty Roy |
The God of small things |
Anthony Masaarenhus |
The Rape of Bangladesh |
Ralph hodgson |
Time, you old gipsy Man |
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