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T.S. Eliot

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T.S. Eliot, the 1948 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is one of the giants of modern literature, highly distinguished as a poet, literary critic, dramatist, and editor and publisher. In 1910 and 1911, while still a college student, he wrote “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and other poems that are landmarks in the history of literature. In these college poems, Eliot articulated distinctly modern themes in forms that were both a striking development of and a marked departure from those of 19th-century poetry. Within a few years he had composed another landmark poem, “Gerontion” (1920), and within a decade, one of the most famous and influential poems of the century, The Waste Land (1922). While the origins of The Waste Land are in part personal, the voices projected are universal. Eliot later denied that he had large cultural problems in mind, but, nevertheless, in The Waste Land he diagnosed the malaise of his generation and indeed of Western civilization in th

Education theory What is Postmodernism? (Modernism and Post modernism)

Hello, this is Ajaz Ahmed Bhatt. When discussing the trend of modern educational philosophy, postmodernism can be cited as one of the trends referred to as a relatively recent trend. In this class, we will look at the concept and meaning of postmodernism. 1. The definition of postmodernism  Different scholars have different definitions of postmodernism. This is because postmodernism contains various, and sometimes contradictory elements together. Post-modernism is sometimes interpreted as'postmodernism','antimodernism' or'postmodernism' due to the ambiguity of the prefix post. Postmodernism is interpreted as a means of inheriting modernism, and antimodernism or postmodernism is interpreted as opposing or trying to escape from modernism. Kim Wook-dong (1990) According to, postmodernism is a logical extension and succession of modernism, a critical reaction to modernism, and a conscious break. In other words, postmodernism seeks to provide a new alternative by ove