Слайд 1British writers of 20 century
Made by: Anastasiia Gepolova & Daria Bogomazova
Слайд 2Plan.
Introduction.
Famous writers of XX century and their books.
Questionnaire.
Conclusion
Слайд 3Introduction.
Well hello everyone! Today we are going to talk about Britain
writers of 20 century and their books. Also we are going to show our opinion about them. And in conclusion we are going to choose the best of writers according to our classmates.
Слайд 4Modern 1920-1940.
Prerequisites: Freud and Bergson's theories; World War I; attempts of
a compromise between mature romanticism and naturalism, between an ideal image of the person and the person real.
Features: pessimistic world view, formation of myths.
Слайд 5Joseph Conrad
Name at the birth:
Józef Theodor Conrad Kozhenyovsky
Date of
birth:
December 3 1857
Birthplace:
Berdichev,
Kiev province,
Russian Empire
Date of death:
August 3 1924 (66 years)
Death place:
Bishopsborn,
England
Kind of activity:
prose writer
Слайд 7Thomas Stearns Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Date of birth: September 26, 1888
Birthplace: St.
Louis, Missouri, USA
Date of death: January 4, 1965 (76 years)
Death place: London, Great Britain
Kind of activity: playwright, poet, critic
Direction: modernism
Genre: poetry
Слайд 9Virginia Woolf
Name at the birth: Adelina Virginia Stephen
Date of birth:
January 25, 1882
Birthplace: London
Date of death: On March 28, 1941 (59 years)
Death place: Lewis, Sussex
Nationality: Great Britain
Kind of activity: prose writer, essayist, literary critic
Years of creativity: 1904 — 1941
Слайд 11Clive Steyplz Lewis
Date of birth:
On November 29 1898
Birthplace:
Belfast, Northern
Ireland, British Empire
Date of death:
On November 22 1963 (64 years)
Death place:
Oxford, England, Great Britain
Nationality (citizenship):
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Kind of activity:
Writer, philologist, thinker, theologian, storyteller
Genre:
fantasy, science fiction, Christian apologetics
Слайд 13Joanne Rowling
Date of birth:
On July 31, 1965 (49 years)
Birthplace:
Gloucestershire,
England
Nationality (citizenship):
Great Britain
Kind of activity:
prose writer
Years of creativity:
with 1997
Genre:
fantasy, tragicomedy, criminal novel
Слайд 15John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Date of birth:
January 3, 1892
Birthplace:
Bloemfontein
Date of
death:
On September 2, 1973 (81 years)
Death place:
Bournemouth
Kind of activity:
prose writer, poet, linguist, philologist, translator
Direction:
Fantasy
Genre:
Children's literature, fantasy, translation, literary criticism, poetry
Слайд 17Agatha Christie
Date of birth:
September 15, 1890
Birthplace:
Torquay (Great Britain)
Date of
death:
On January 12, 1976 (85 years)
Death place:
Wallingford (Oxfordshire, Great Britain)
Kind of activity:
prose writer, playwright
Years of creativity:
1920 – 1976
Direction:
fiction
Genre:
detective story, adventure novel, spy novel, autobiography
Слайд 19Realism 1920-1940
Prerequisites : World War I, mass unemployment, fascist moods, threat
of the new world conflict, philosophy of a decadence and modernist style.. Features: connection of high book pathos with colloquial style, popular speech; use of dramaturgic receptions; a gusty expression, detective motives in a plot.
Genres: anti-war social and psychological novel, novel anti-Utopia, satirical novel, novel detective story, poem, novel jazz.
Слайд 20George Orwell
Date of birth:
June 25, 1903
Birthplace:
Motikhari, British India
Date of
death:
On January 21 1950(46 years)
Death place:
London, Great Britain
Kind of activity:
writer, publicist
Years of creativity:
1935 — 1950
Слайд 22Aldous Huxley
Date of birth:
July 26, 1894
Birthplace:
Godalming, Surrey, England, Great
Britain
Date of death:
On November 22, 1963 (69 years)
Death place:
Los Angeles, USA
Kind of activity:
prose writer
Слайд 24William Gerald Golding
Date of birth:
September 19, 1911
Birthplace:
Saint-Kolamb Maynor
Cornwall, Great
Britain
Date of death:
On June 19, 1993 (81 years)
Death place:
Perranauortal
Cornwall, Great Britain
Kind of activity:
prose writer
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get acquainted with works of these writers. Many thanks for attention!