“Modern English Literature" исследовательская работа

Тукманова Алина Илшатовна, ученица 10 класса МБОУ Исенбаевской СОШ Агрызского муниципального района РТ

Научный руководитель: Тукманова Гульназ Загидовна

“Modern English Literature

The interest, raised recently towards English language, the development of international relations on different levels has reasoned the desire to learn as much as possible about the country where this language originated as well as about its culture.

The literature is that magic key that opens the door of cognition of many sphere of human knowledge. It helps us to learn some interesting facts about t history, to know more about people's life in other countries. Sometimes, while reading a book, we can analyse actions of its' characters and it helps us to draw some certain conclusion. That’s why I find studying foreign literature is not only interesting, but also very useful.  

 Purpose: The purpose of my work is to reveal the features of foreign literature of the twentieth century.

Оbjectives:1. To prove that the foreign literature is as interesting as the domestic.

2. Understand all the components of the foreign literature of the twentieth century.

   The period between 1917 and 1930 was a time when the crisis of the bourgeois world reached its highest point and revolutions took place in several countries: in Russia, in Germany and in Hungary.

  The writers of this period tried to show how a new society might be built up. But many bourgeois writers who were opposed to revolutions saw nothing but chaos and anarchy before them. They explained this crisis as a failure of civilisation.

A symbolic method of writing had already started early in the 20th century. It was in the twenties, that there appeared writers who refused to acknowledge reality as such. They thought reality to be superficial – it was only a world of appearances. The cause of everything that happened,– that is what led to events – was the irrational, the unconscious and the mystical in man. These writers called the inner psychological process "the stream of consciousness" and based a new literary technique upon it.

The second period in the development of English literature of the 20th century was the decade between 1930 and World War II.

The world economic crisis spread over the whole capitalist world in the beginning of the thirties. The Hunger March of the employed in 1933 was the most memorable event in Britain. The employed marched from Glasgow to London holding meetings in every town they passed.

After World War II there appeared young writers, who are ready to keep up the standard of wholesome optimism, and mature writers, who have passed through a certain creative crisis.

In the fifties there appears a very interesting trend in literature, the followers of which were called "The Angry Young Man". The post-war changes had given a chance to a large number of young from the more democratic layers of society to receive higher education at universities. But on graduating, these students found they had no prospects in life; unemployment had increased after the war.

Perhaps the three leading English writers are Graham Greene, J.K. Rowling ,Iris Murdoch and Agatha Christie, that is read and loved not only in her native country.

Iris Murdoc has written novels, drama,  phylosophical criticism, critical theory, poetry, a  short story, a pamphlet, and a libretto or an opera  based on her play The Servants and the Snow,  but she is best knkown and the most successful  as a philosopher and a novelist.

One of the most successful modern  English writers is J.K. Rowling. She is  known all over the world. Her books  about Harry Potter, which are read by  children of different countries and of  different ages, have become the bestsellers.  

All my purpose and objectives, in my opinion, have been achieved. This work should help to understand the literature of the twentieth century and all its components. I have done it.