Sara Martín Alegre P08/04540/02135

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Document Outline

• Post-War English Literature 1945-1990
  • Introduction
  • Objectives
  • Index
  • 1. Literature 1945-1990: cultural context
    • 1.1. The book market in Britain
    • 1.2. The relationship between Literature and the universities
    • 1.3. Adaptations of literary works for television and the cinema
    • 1.4. The minorities in English Literature: women and post-colonial writers
  • 2. The English Novel 1945-1990
    • 2.1. Traditionalism: between the past and the present
    • 2.2. Fantasy, realism and experimentalism
    • 2.3. The post-modern novel
  • 3. Drama in England 1945-1990
    • 3.1. West End theatre and the new English drama
    • 3.2. Absurdist drama and social and political drama
    • 3.3. New theatre companies and the Arts Council
    • 3.4. Theatre from the mid-1960s onwards
  • 4. English Poetry 1945-1990
    • 4.1. Romantic and other singular poets
    • 4.2. The Movement and The Group
    • 4.3. Foreign influences and the Underground poets
    • 4.4. Social realists and neo-modernists
    • 4.5. The Northern Irish poets
    • 4.6. Regionalists, women and post-colonial poets
    • 4.7. The 'Martian school of poetry' and other poetical voices
  • Answer key
  • Bibliography