Buchara state university m. Bakoeva, E. Muratova, M. Ochilova english literature

Questions and Tasks:
1. What do you know about the literary movement the follow 
ers of which were called “The Angry Young Men”?
2. What is “the anti-colonial trend” in English literature?
3. What is a “working-class novel”?
4. What is the difference between “entertainment” and “seri 
ous” novels, written by Graham Greene?

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5. What novels were written by Charles Percy Snow?
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. What problems are James Aldridge’s works devoted to?
7. What do you think, why Iris Murdoch’s novels are 
considered to be philosophical?
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. What do you know about Iris Murdoch’s philosophy o f ex 
istentialism?
S ir K in g sle y A m is 
(1922-1995)
Kingsley Amis is an English novelist and poet. Me was born 
in 1922 in London and educated at St. John’s College, Oxford. 
Between 1943 and 1945 he was in the army and then taught 
English at the University College.
Amis became famous after he had written his first novel 
“Lucky Jim” (1954). The protagonist o f the novel is Jim Dixon. 
He is an instructor and an unsuccessful lecturer in history at a 
small provincial university. He is bored by his subject, but at the 
same time is afraid o f losing his jo b . This forces him to 
compromise with many circumstances lie disapproves of in reality. 
Jim is disgusted by the falseness ofhis colleagues and their works. 
Thus, he finds that his university education does not give him the 
entree into the world of power or intellectual endeavour.
The novel’s hero was immediately regarded as one of the pro­
test figures of the fiction produced by the “Angry Young Men” 
generation of writers. But Amis, himself, strongly objected to be

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ing connected with the group, which in itself was more a term 
invented by the critics than a literary movement. The targets of 
criticism in all o f Amis’s works are various social problems.
Amis’s other novels include “That Uncertain Feeling” 
(1955), “Take a Girl Like You” (1960), “One Fat Englishman” 
(1964), “The Green Man” (1970), “Jake’s Thing” (1979), “The 
Old Devils” (1986), “Difficulties with Girls” (1989), and “The 
Folks that Live on the Hill” (1990).
Amis has also published three volumes o f poems: “ A Frame 
o f Mind” (1953), “A Case o f Samples” (1956) and “A Look 
Around Estate” (1967). His “Collected Poems: 1944-1979” was 
published in 1979.
Amis is a literary critic as well. In his “New Maps o f Hell”
(1960) he gives a critical analysis o f science fiction. Iri 1991 his 
book of autobiographical essays “Memoirs” was published. Queen 
Elizabeth knighted Amis in 1990. His son, Martin Amis, is also a 
noted English novelist.