The document discusses selected terms in modernist literature: the Theatre of the Absurd, the Campus Novel, and the Angry Young Men. It outlines characteristics of each, including their themes, key figures, and the cultural contexts they emerged from. Notable writers associated with these movements include Samuel Beckett, Kingsley Amis, and John Osborne.

1. Department of English
Name: Gohil Devikaba J
Roll no.: 05
Paper no.: 09
Paper Name: The Modernist Literature
Topic name: Selected terms: 1) The
Theatre of the Absurd 2) The Campus
Novel 3) Angry Young Men
E-mail ID: devikagohil13@gmail.com
Submitted to: M.K.B.U

2. Selected Terms:
1.The Theatre of the Absurd
2.The Campus Novel
3.The Angry young Men

3. 1) The Theatre of the Absurd:
Character
istics
Actions
are futile
– no goal
State of
hopeless
ness
Man as
center of
universe
Language
- break
down
Speech
doesn’t
make any
sense
Illogical
situations

4. Identity Crisis and Existentialism:

5. Well known Names:
Martin
Esslin
Samuel
Beckett
Eugene
Ionesco
Jean
Genet
Harold
Pinter
Albert
Camus
Jean
Paul
Sartre

6. 2) The Campus Novel:
This term is also known as ‘The University
novel’.
It is mainly a British genre.
And it deals with university life.
These novels reflects an anxiety in
universities about the fate of the
humanities, the ethics of research and
funding and the politics of appointments.

7. Well known Names:
Kingsley Amis David Lodge
Malcolm Brandbury Antony Burgess
Tom Sharpe William Golding

8. 3) Angry Young Men:
This term is used to describe 1950s
group of writers mainly dramatists and
novelists.
These group of writers were unhappy
with the cultural distinctions.
They were against elitism of England,
social inequality and injustice of the
state.

9. Well known Names:
John Osborne Philip Larkin
John Wain John Braine
Alan Sillitoe
Terence
Rattigan