Main cultural and social trends in the 20th century from the WWI onwards:

Main cultural and social trends in the 20th century from the WWI onwards:
In 1920s, after having been demobilised, soldiers started returning homes. People started feeling that they had to make up for something, because of the shock of WWI, they felt they had to enjoy the parties.
Women became more emancipated, started smoking and drinking alcohol in public, wearing shorter skirts and shorter hair styles.
Jazz emerged as the new musical style. The world becomes much more like the world we know today.
As the post-modernism develops, major British novelists appear on the scene, Such as Dorris Lessing with the Golden Notebook, which deals with female issues, followed by John Fowles, Margaret Atwood, etc. The post-modernisms is really marked with Julian Barnes’s, Flaubert’s Parrot which is a typical post-modernist novel. It serves as the best illustration, almost a text-book example of what the post-modernist novel is. Then we have Ishiguro, who is not a post-modernist in terms of form, he does not experiment with form as Julian Barns does, but again he highlights these major trends. Our course will be concluded with Ishiguro’s novel The Remains of the Day, which was published in 1992.