ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AGES ERA PERIOD

20TH CENTURY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to reimagine human identity in radically new ways?
A
Sigmund Freud
B
Sir James Frazer
C
Immanuel Kant
D
all but C
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Two important sources of this influence were Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher to whom both Gide and Mann, for example, were much indebted, and Sigmund Freud, whose psychoanalytical works, by the 1920s, had had a telling influence on Western intellectuals.

Detailed explanation-2: -James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses, published in 1922 in Paris, was one of the most important achievements of literary modernism.

Detailed explanation-3: -Americans, like poets T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound and novelist William Faulkner, were other important modernists. British modernists include Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, and D. H. Lawrence.

Detailed explanation-4: -Joseph Conrad. Thomas Hardy. Rupert Brooke. Wilfred Owen. Edward Thomas. T.S. Eliot. D.H. Lawrence. W.B. Yeats. More items

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