CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

-Forged new styles and new forms to express the 20 century.
-Post modern is a stye that is aware of it self as writing and wants the readers opinion to influence the story.

Decline of modernism. No longer impersonal,allusive, difficult poetry. Times called for a more personal and accessible approach to poetry.

Before the contemporary period nonfiction writing was not considered literature and was put in the same category as journalism and news. Nonfiction really began to become its own genre and overlap with fiction in the contemporary period

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HISTORIC EVENTS

• World war 2, Korean war, Cold war, Vietnam war, Cuban missle crisis.
• Assination of JFK
• Assination of Martin Luther King Jr. And RFK
• Aids epidemic

FAMOUS AUTHORS

• John Steinbeck
• Harper Lee
• John Updike

FAMOUS BOOKS

• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Catcher in the Rye
• 100 Years of Solitude
• Howl (poem)

QUESTIONS WE HAVE

• How should the Contemporary period be divides if it lasts much longer?
• When will the contemporary period end?
• Will there be a period of literature like this ever again?