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In the early 1920s, the base support for Korea's modern literature began to expand as people experienced a renewed self-awakening and recognition of their national predicaments in the wake of the March 1919 uprising. The novels of this period describe the sufferings of the intellectual who drifts through reality, and expose the pathetic lives of the laborers and farmers. Yi Kwang-su's short story Sonyonui piae (The Sorrow of Youth) in which he writes of the inner pain of the individual, was followed by his full-length novel Mujong (Heartlessness) (1917), the success of which placed him at the center of Korean letters. Mujong was not thoroughgoing in its apprehension of colonial period reality, but as a novel combining the fatalistic life of the individual with the Zeitgeist of the period, it is recognized as being modern in character. With Paettaragi (Following the Boat) (1921) and Kamja (Potatoes) (1925), Kim Tong-in ... contributed greatly to the short-story genre. In it, he minutely describes in realistic detail the shifting fates of man. Hyon Chin-gon's Unsu choun nal (The Lucky Day) (1924) is also a work which employs superb technique in describing people coping with the pain of their reality.
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ANTHONY CASCARDI — Rhetoric, Spanish — works on literature and philosophy, aesthetics, and early modern literature, with an emphasis on Spanish, English, and French. He is especially interested in the Spanish Baroque and frequently teaches courses on Cervantes. Most recently he published Consequences of Enlightenment: Aesthetics as Critique. He is currently working towards a book on emotion and agency in art and is devising a new course on aesthetics, called "Speaking of the Arts." (Ph.D., Harvard University).
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The first representatives of modern Macedonian literature made their appearance at the beginning of the 19th century. Joakim Krcovski and Kiril Pejcinovik introduced the ideas and sentiments of Enlightenment and rationalism. After them, the development of Macedonian Literature has been marked by the work of Dimitar and Konstantin Miladinov, Grigor Prlicev, and Rajko Zinzifov from the period of the middle of the 19th century. It was further developed in the 20th century by Vojdan Cernodrinski, Nikola Kirov - Majski and Atanas Razdolov.
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The English Language and Literature course gives you the chance to study writing in English from its origins in Anglo-Saxon England to the modern literature of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. As well as the literature of the British Isles, it includes works from many other parts of the world, and gives you a considerable degree of choice over which periods and topics you would like to concentrate on. But you can, if you wish, still opt to cover the full historical sweep of English literature.
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ANNE-LISE FRANCOIS — English — works in the modern period, comparative romanticisms; lyric poetry; the psychological novel and novel of manners; gender and critical theory; literature and philosophy; and fashion and popular culture. She is currently revising for publication Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience. Recent publications include The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture. She has ... published on falsetto in seventies disco and on the "gentle force" of habit in Hume and Wordsworth.
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Modernist literature is defined by its move away from Romanticism, venturing into subject matter that is traditionally mundane--a prime example being The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot. Modernist literature often features a marked pessimism, a clear rejection of the optimism apparent in Victorian literature. In fact, "a common motif in Modernist fiction is that of an alienated individual--a dysfunctional individual trying in vain to make sense of a predominantly urban and fragmented society". However, many Modernist works like T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land are marked by the absence of a central, heroic figure; in rejecting the solipsism of Romantics like Shelley and Byron, these works reject the subject of Cartesian dualism and collapse narrative and narrator into a collection of disjointed fragments and overlapping voices.
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