Lost Generation:
- Writers such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein were prominent figures known as the "Lost Generation."
They conveyed disappointment and a sense of loss following devastating experiences World War I. Works like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby reflect characters navigating a sense of futility and disenchantment and prewar ideals.
Modernism:
- Literary modernism encompassed an experimental style. Writers employed stream -of consciousness narratives, fragmented structures, and non linear sequences to convey the fractured nature of reality post war T.S.Elio's The Waste Land James Joyce's Ulysses serve as significant modernist works displaying alienation, disillusionment ,and skepticism.
Existentialism:
- Postwar philosophers such as Jean-Paul Sartres influenced existentialist literature, which centered on an individual's internal conflicts, alienation, and existential crises in a meaningless reality. Authors like Albert Camus in The Outsider and Sartre's Nausea portrayed alienated or individuals struggling to find purpose in what they percieved as an arbitrary existance.
Dystopian Literature:
- Dystopian fiction like George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and AIdous Huxleys' Brave New World presented dystopian societies as an indictment of prewar totalitarian and oppressive tendencies. These work's reflect society's distrust on political ideologies that claimed utopia while highlighting flaws of blind idealism.
Postmodern Literature.
- This later literary movement questioned notions of absolute authority and certainty. writers employed meta fiction intertextuality , and irony to underline constructed nature of 'truth" authors like John Barth, in The Sot-Weed Factor, playfully deconstructs historical narratives highlighting the relativity of historical accounts