... forms of cultural expression. To some writers, the alienation they felt and depicted was an exploration of the individual sensibility in a world which it was felt was becoming ever more standardized and uniform, an age of the masses. The First and Second World Wars (1914–18 and 1939–45 respectively) mark, in time and in their effects, momentous changes on a global scale: this kind ... beginning of the First World War the characteristic response to it was that to serve in the war was a matter of duty. Poetry was written in order to express a sense of honor and to celebrate the glorie...

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... commanding officer orders him to fight. A hyper-real scene follows where the mechanics of the gun itself are brought to our attention in crisp detail. We are hearing what the character is focusing on in his moment of transformation from a coward to a soldier. This aim for sound to be as realistic as possible using various forms of reality ... ; the sound of the guns being fired are authentic because they are recordings of the same guns used at Omaha back in 1944. Ryan needed this authentic sensibility to create its shock value. Most people in the western world have seen countless news re...

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... British Caribbean has yet produced" (The Pleasures of Exile, 1960), Lamming allied himself, a Negro, with Selvon, an Indian, in emblematic partnership. He contradistinguished them both, as grounded in "the peasant sensibility" from V. S. Naipaul, who "with the diabolical help of Oxford University, has done a thorough job of wiping this out of his guts." Selvon was not himself hostile to Naipaul, who started ... literature more visibly on the world's stage. As an exile depicting his homeland, Selvon conveys a sense of place, presents people in all their indigenousness, lyricizes the roma...

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