Week 07 World Lit Project - Rough Draft
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Weltee Wolo
Rasmussen College
Author Note
This paper is being submitted on May 12, 2017, Vicki Phillips’s Contemporary World Literature G335/LIT3191 course
Timeline contemporary literature | |
Authors and their work | Historical Events Showing the Context of the Writing |
1904 Constantine Cavafy-waiting for the Barbarian He revived Greek poetry both locally and internationally. His poetry was a self or historical reflection he was going through. In this poem, he poetry a state that is in despair when their hope does not turn up. The officials place their hope on the arrival of Barbarians to save their city. At evening the barbarians were yet to arrive and every one was scared | 1873 the long depression 1882 Anglo-Egyptian war 1919-1922 – Greece defeated in Greco-Turkish war |
1920 Marcel Proust-in search of lost time Revolutionized the modern writing through this monumental novel. The novel was published in seven volumes. The novel is not only complex with 2000 characters but also bulky. The author recalls his early life as a child in the Guermantes way. He recalls how a nurse “sang me to sleep with that old ditty” | 1871- end of Franco- Prussian war 1900-1905 : death of his parents 1914 world war I |
1925 Franz Kafka-the trial Introduced the fusion of realism with fantastic. His works are attributed to the themes of absurdity, guilt, and alienation of incomprehensive measures. The trial shows the trial of a man, Josef k who is a chief cashier at a local bank. He is arrested on his 30th birthday by unknown un-identified agents from an agency, which they do not identify without even being told of his crime. The main character, K, is persecuted by being stabbed. His final words were ”like dog” | 1914: world war I |
1958 Louis Aragon-holy week Was a great contributor to the surrealist movement that saw a resurgence in French art and writing. Aragon work on the holy week covers the march 1895 when napoleon was in a struggle to gain authority from king louis the 18th. He uses the imagination and reflection of the characters to flashback on their roles and characteristics. The author also shows his own personal reflections during the French invasion by Germany. The king is unable to keep his reign and runs away. The most notable episode is at the end where Theodore say he “ sees no sense to die for the crippled king who has fled away or Napoleon with his imperialist police state” | 1914: world war I 1919 France occupies Germany territory 1919-1924- Dadaism 1920- 1970’s surreal movement 1922-1953 – Stalinism movement 1933-1945 World war II 1933 -1939 the commune journal launched 1940 Germany invades France |
1948 Bertolt Brecht – the Caucasian Chalk Circle Shaped the epic theatrical views by making the spectators see the drama as everyday reality surrounding them. They saw that the reality of life as a human construction that can be changed. I like when the judge uses the “Solomonic” decision-making by drawing a chalk circle and tells them to pull the child from the circle and then divide the child into halves. The woman who did not pull the child was declared the mother of the child | 1914-1918: the first world 1933: Adolf Hitler takes over the leadership in Germany 1933-1945 World war II 1945-1956: the fall of Hitler reign and era of the cold war. 1954- received the Stalin peace prize |