The second world war brought about a change in the perception of people, thinkers and literary artists alike. It changed many old ways of thinking and gave us new offings. An increased attachment to religion characterized literature after the second world war.
Thoughtfulness about the form of the novel and relationships between past and present fiction showed itself in the works produced. It inspired authors, poets, writers involved in each and every genre whether it be poetry, prose, fiction, historical novels, novellas, short stories, fantasy, adventure and the like.
We got inspiring tales of bravery, self-belief and optimism in the face of adversities. The intermediate postwar period separated "Modernism" from "Postmodernism" in literature. Literature attained a new maturity and a rich diversity. After the second world war, a new generation arrived, with its different ethnic, regional, and social character. Among the younger writers were children of immigrants, many of them Jews; Africans, only a few generations away from slavery; and, eventually, women, who, with the rise of feminism, were to speak in a new voice. Though the social climate of the postwar years was conservative, even conformist, some of the most hotly discussed writers were homosexuals or bisexuals.
There was also a desire to renew national prestige and esteem and this was visible in the works. Poetry in the post-war period followed a number of interlinked paths, most notably deriving from surrealism, or from philosophical and phenomenological concerns stemming from existentialism, the relationship between poetry and the visual arts, and the notions of the limits of language.
It gave us amazing authors, poets, writers: Anne Frank, Orwell, Pynchon, Hemingway, Truman Capote, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Samuel Beckett, Salinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges and the list is almost endless.
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The second world war brought about a change in the perception of people, thinkers and literary artists alike. It changed many old ways of thinking and gave us new offings. An increased attachment to religion characterized literature after the second world war.
Thoughtfulness about the form of the novel and relationships between past and present fiction showed itself in the works produced. It inspired authors, poets, writers involved in each and every genre whether it be poetry, prose, fiction, historical novels, novellas, short stories, fantasy, adventure and the like.
We got inspiring tales of bravery, self-belief and optimism in the face of adversities. The intermediate postwar period separated "Modernism" from "Postmodernism" in literature. Literature attained a new maturity and a rich diversity. After the second world war, a new generation arrived, with its different ethnic, regional, and social character. Among the younger writers were children of immigrants, many of them Jews; Africans, only a few generations away from slavery; and, eventually, women, who, with the rise of feminism, were to speak in a new voice. Though the social climate of the postwar years was conservative, even conformist, some of the most hotly discussed writers were homosexuals or bisexuals.
There was also a desire to renew national prestige and esteem and this was visible in the works. Poetry in the post-war period followed a number of interlinked paths, most notably deriving from surrealism, or from philosophical and phenomenological concerns stemming from existentialism, the relationship between poetry and the visual arts, and the notions of the limits of language.
It gave us amazing authors, poets, writers: Anne Frank, Orwell, Pynchon, Hemingway, Truman Capote, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Samuel Beckett, Salinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges and the list is almost endless.