This was an amazing play that really does take us into the heart of everything that the twentieth century was about. T.S. Eliot speaks about modern life as one where we are all “distracted from distraction by distraction”. We have seen how Gerard Manley Hopkins challenges the destructiveness, the distractedness of his times as, in…
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George Orwell in the Mid Twentieth Century
George Orwell was deeply conscious of the way in which language can be both an instrument of freedom as well as oppression. He saw how the political violence that rose with the Twentieth Century was based essentially on an abuse of language. For example the ways in which imperialist powers in the 19th and early…
Twentieth Century Literature 2015 Week 1
We got off to a great start today. Thank you for your concentrated attention and your willing participation in what we are exploring together. The 20th Century is one of the most momentous periods from the point of view of radical changes taking place in the way people think, feel and create. It is important…
Michael Griffith: Home Page- Literature and Life Spring 2025 
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