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Literary history lesson: modernity 

1914-1945

made by: Julius, Thijs, Mitchell 

Introduction

• Historical background
  
• Important writers in Britain and their works
• Word puzzle solution
• Kahoot
• Sources

Historical background

• Experimentation & Individualism
  
• Old literary traditions
  
• Modernist period
  
• World War 1 and 2
  
• Horrific activities
  

Historical background

• Transition 


• negative point of view  
• Prominent style of literature
• Rebellion within  writers

• People started thinking critically 
  
• Searching for something new


• Own decisions 
• Deduction of emotions
• Erotic literature 

When was the modernity?

1. 1906-1948
2. 1835-1871
3. 1914-1945
4. 1924-1955

Important writers and their works 

• virginia Woolf
• Wilfred Owen
• To the Lighthouse 

Wilfred Owen

• British poet
  
• Born in a small railway town “Oswestry”
  
• March 18, 1991
  
• Eldest of four children
  
• Modest means
  

Wilfred owen

• British army during World War 1
  
• Siegfried Sassoon
  
• Ripon Army Camp
  
• Cottage
  
• Borrage Lane
  
• "Strange Meeting,” and "Mental Cases."
  
• Sambre-Oise near Ors
  
• November 4, 1918
  

Virginia Woolf 

• Adeline Virginia Stephen
  
• Born in 1882 and died in 1941
  
• Known for:Mrs. Dalloway

          -  Mrs. Dalloway

          -  A Room Of One’s Own

          -  To The Lighthouse

• Legacy
  

To The Lighthouse

• 3 sections
  

         -  The Window

         -  Time Passes

         -  Lighthouse

To the Light house was written by Wilfred Owen

1. true
2. false

Kahoot

Sources 

• https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Owen
  
• https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/lighthouse/summary/
  
• https://www.britannica.com/biography/Virginia-Woolf/Legacy
  
• http://www.online-literature.com/periods/modernism.php
  
• http://www.online-literature.com/virginia_woolf/
  
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/owen_wilfred.shtml