Post- world War II, Victorian Female, and Romantic Period Female Literature Comparison of Language

English Literature of the 20th Century
Plan:

1. 
   Introduction:
   

Evolution of English Literature by Female Authors

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   Main part:
   

2.1 Post- World War II, Victorian Female, and Romantic Period Female Literature

2.2 Comparison of Language

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   Conclusion:
   

3.1 Explanation of Changes

4. Appendix
5. References
Introduction:
Evolution of English Literature by Female Authors
The academic discipline of women's writing as a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their gender, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."^[1] It is not a question of the subject matter or political stance of a particular author, but of her gender, i.e. her position as a woman within the literary world. Women's writing, as a discrete area of literary studies and practice, is recognized explicitly by the numbers of dedicated journals, organizations, awards, and conferences which focus mainly or exclusively on texts produced by women. Women's writing as an area of study has been developing since the 1970s. The majority of English and American literature programs offer courses on specific aspects of literature by women, and women's writing is generally considered an area of specialization in its own right.As time passes literature reflects this phenomenon in many ways. Themes and characters shift to reflect the period. Attitudes and literary devices provide perspective on writer’s emotional state often as a result of outside influences. Format may move from formal to less structured. Most evident of the changes to literary works as years go by is the language. Each era has a linguistic system all its own. The study of linguistics reveals how these changes occur, often slowly over time, and as a result of social use and diction preferences, such as dialect shifts, colloquialism and slang prominence, and the acceptance of new words. Literature serves as a map of those changes. The great female writers of English literature provide language in their works that reveal the social influence and artistic preferences for each age. The works of modern and post-modern authors, such as Alice Munro and Anne Carson, may share common themes with Victorian and Romantic authors, such as Emily Bronte and Mary Wollstonecraft, but the language of the pieces are quite different¹.
Alice Murno’s short stories present her views on relationships, the past, and the role of women in society. Her story “Boys and Girls” specifically deals with a girl trying to escape the domestic role expected of her and win her father’s acceptance as an equal. Munro offers sweeping landscapes of country settings and simple characters, “my father and I walk gradually down a long, shabby sort of street…in Tuppertown, an old town on Lake Huron” (Munro, 2006, p. 2778). The language of her stories reflects this setting and the period she writes about, the 20^th century, particularly the 1930s.
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