Postwar British Literature. A Coursebook

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Academic Paper from the year 2023 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: This course book deals with British postwar literature. The following texts are being reviewed: The analysis begins with the text "The Kids Are Still Not Alright: Rediscovering Lord of The Flies". The second chapter deals with "Authority and Alterity Figures, Power Rearrangements and Reconfigurations: Cultural Studies versus Postmodernism". The following chapters review the texts "Redeeming Larkin: Space, Communion, Identity", "Larkin¿s Englishness: A Contextual Approach", "Constructing a Poetic Self: Plath's Identity Transformations", "The Vagaries of Identity and the Power of Poetry: Hughes's Tales from Ovid and the Anxiety of Influence" and "From Religious Belief to Identity Games in Ted Hughes' Early Poetry". The final chapter focuses on "A Cultural Studies Approach to a Novelist at the Crossroads".