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[Annotated extract from ‘The History of Western Literature’ ‘Major literary periods and trends’ ‘THE 20TH CENTURY’ ]

‘Given the extraordinary conditions in which a modern writer works, it was not surprising that reputations were difficult to judge, that radical experimentation characterised many fields of literature, and that traditional forms of writing were loosing their definition and were tending to dissolve into one another. Novels might acquire many features of poetry or be transformed into a kind of heightened nonfictional reportage, while experimentation with typography gave poems an appearance of verbal paintings, and dramatic works, shorn of anything resembling a traditional plot, became a series of carefully orchestrated gestures or events. But formal experimentation was only part of the picture....’

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*[Encyclopaedia Britannica 23: 229]

(...Fortunately ‘The History of Western Painting’ is far too long to include here)

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