Congratulations to All of You for Creating such Wonderful Readable Responses to the Wide Range of Questions posted Each Week: Blogging has become a powerful transformative aspect of literary teaching that enables students to not only connect creatively with the energies of the writers that they love, but also to share their own intimate connection…
Category: Twentieth Century Literature ENGL202
Concluding Blog Topics for 20th Century Literature 2020
We have started exploring some of the work of those writers who challenge the tyranny of English culture on their own lives, while at the same time demonstrating their passionate commitment to English as an expressive medium. What a paradox! We have found this in M.Nourbese Philip and now in James Joyce. We are going…
T.S.Eliot, literary modernism and the quest for meaning.
T.S.Eliot, right from the start of his career was a passionate seeker for truth. This expressed itself in the metaphor of the journey which runs right through his whole work from “Prufrock” through to “The Four Quartets”. What truth was Eliot seeking? He was clearly living at a time of universal fragmentation, immediately after the…
creativity in time of war
Today we broached the world of Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke. The focus was on the way the English language became transformed during this period with the direct impact of the horrors of the First World War. The jingoistic idealism of Rupert Brooke was kicked out by the hard hitting, grating, consonantal observation…
The Early Twentieth Century
Blog Topics for Week 3 – Based on Weeks One and Two The Early Twentieth Century- Introduction to the 20th Century & Gerard Manley Hopkins Chose any one topic for this week. Be creative, concise and edit your work carefully! Enjoy 1/ Take the first line of any one of Hopkins’ poems and write your…
