LITERARY TRENDS AND CRITICISM IN POST-WAR BRITISH FICTION
LITERARY TRENDS AND CRITICISM IN POST-WAR BRITISH FICTION

Summary/Abstract: The present paper displays a few aspects characteristic for the major literary trends, topics and authors in post-war British literature. Designed to provide a brief outline of the period, it is focused on modernist and postmodernist writers, emphasizing the authors’ interest for aesthetic and social matters, or for the modern novel regarded as a process of communication. The literary trends approached in this paper dwell upon some major themes such as the alienation of the individual, who tries to find comfort in a world that has lost its moral values and traditions or the destruction caused by technology. Modernist and postmodernist characteristics also mixed non-fiction with fantasy, blurring the lines of reality. If the writers of the 1950s were more concerned with older storytelling methods, the following decades brought about a change in the narrative climate of the epoch and the new writers revived the novel and em ployed different literary styles.

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