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Literature - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Often combined with theater and music
      - Songwriters used poetic texts in their lyrics or were seen as poets
      - Seamus Heaney used poetry for social criticism
  - - - Explored racism and colonial issues
      - Doris Lessing's writings addressed these themes
- - - - Rise of multicultural writers from former colonies
      - Salman Rushdie ("Satanic Verses," 1988)
      - Michael Ondaatje ("The English Patient," 1992)
- - - - Samuel Beckett, known as the "last modernist," had a tragicomic perspective on human life
      - Iconic play: "Waiting for Godot" (1952), a key example of the Theatre of the Absurd
      - Harold Pinter, known for "comedy of menace," with characters threatened by unseen forces
      - Notable work: "The Room" (1957)
- - - - George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949), a satire of totalitarianism
- - - - John Fowles ("The French Lieutenant's Woman," 1969)
      - Angela Carter ("The Bloody Chamber," 1979)