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Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 James Joyce: Ulysses
- Season 1 Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent
- Season 1 Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'
- Season 1 Marcel Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu
- Season 1 Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
- Season 1 Henrik Ibsen: The Master Playwright
- Season 1 Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
- Season 1 Luigi Pirandello: In Search of an Author
- Season 1 T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
- Season 1 Franz Kafka: The Trial
- Season 1 Ten Great Writers: The Seminar
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers - Season 1 Episode 11 Ten Great Writers: The Seminar
0.00 48 minutes In this lively round-table discussion, moderator Melvyn Bragg; the late writer and critic Anthony Burgess; Professor George Steiner, author of Language and Silence; literary critic Hermione Lee; and writer and series consultant Professor Malcolm Bradbury debate what constitutes modernist writing. New literary themes generated by the era’s political and social upheavals are also discussed, including time, the unconscious mind, alienation, the changing role of women, and the consequences of two world wars. In addition, the panel suggests that the atrocities of the post-modern world led writers to reject modernist narrative techniques and seek a new syntax and vocabulary.
