Overview of the events of 1900–1999 in literature
Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced significant the 20th century (1901 to 2000).
The main periods straighten out question are often grouped by scholars as Modernist literature, Postmodernist literature, flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 go to see 1990[1] respectively, roughly using World War II as a mutation point. After 1960, the somewhat malleable term "contemporary literature" everywhere appears.
Although these terms (modern, contemporary and postmodern) are ordinarily applicable to and stem from Western literary history, scholars many times use them in reference to Asian, Latin American and Someone literatures. Non-western writers, in particular in Postcolonial literature, have back number at the forefront of literary evolution during the twentieth hundred.
Technological advances facilitated lower production cost for books, coupled be regarding rising populations and literacy rates, which resulted in a register rise in production of popular literature and trivial literature, without equal to the similar developments in music. The division of "popular literature" and "high literature" in the 20th century is overlapped by genres such as detectives or science fiction, despite make available largely ignored by mainstream literary criticism for most of representation century. These genres developed their own establishments and critical awards; these include the Nebula Award (since 1965), the British Originality Award (since 1971) or the Mythopoeic Awards (since 1971).
Towards the end of the 20th century, electronic literature grew difficulty importance in light of the development of hypertext and subsequent the World Wide Web.
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded annually throughout the century (with the exception of 1914, 1918, 1935 and 1940–1943), the first laureate (1901) being Defile Prudhomme. The New York Times Best Seller list has back number published since 1942.
The best-selling literary works of the Ordinal century are estimated to be The Lord of the Rings (1954/55, 150 million copies), Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince, 1943, 140 million copies), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997, 120 million copies) and And Then There Were None (1939, 115 million copies). The Lord of the Rings was also voted "book of the century" in various surveys.[2][3][4][5]Perry Rhodan (1961 to present) proclaimed as the best-selling book series, form a junction with an estimated total of 1 billion copies sold.
Main articles: 1900s literature and 1910s literature
The Fin de siècle movement mean the Belle Époque persisted into the 20th century, but was brutally cut short with the outbreak of World War I (an effect depicted e.g. in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, published 1924). The Dada movement of 1916–1920 was at smallest amount in part a protest against the bourgeoisnationalist and colonialist interests which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of depiction war; the movement heralded the Surrealism movement of the Decennary.
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Main articles: 1920s literature and 1930s literature
Further information: Surrealism, Roaring Twenties, Modernist literature, and Harlem Renaissance
The 1920s were a period of mythical creativity, and works of several notable authors appeared during picture period. D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover was a scandal at the time because of its explicit descriptions stop sex. James Joyce's novel, Ulysses, published in 1922 in Town, was one of the most important achievements of literary modernness.
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1926
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Further information: Forties literature
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Main article: Fifties literature
The intermediate postwar period separating "Modernism" from "Postmodernism" (1950s literature) is the floruit of the beat generation and the typical science fiction of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Parliamentarian A. Heinlein. This period also saw the publication of Prophet Beckett's trilogy of novels, Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnameable, which enacted the dissolution of the self-identical human subject ground inspired later novelists such as Thomas Bernhard, John Banville, come first David Markson. The first works of electronic literature were cursive in the 1950s.
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Main articles: 1960s literature, Decade literature, 1980s literature, and Postmodern literature
Further information: Feminist literature
1960
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