Literature of 20th century

Study 20th C Literature using Online Video

Use our 3 online educational video titles to survey European literature from the Age of Enlightenment to World War II. Examine the philosophy of Descartes and Voltaire...the flowering of Romanticism after the French Revolution...the literature of Chekhov, Ibsen, Mann, Brecht, Camus, and others. Analyze excerpts from representative works.

Learning Objectives:

• Gain insight to the scientific and philosophic quest for knowledge that dominated the Age of Reason, and the intellectual ideals that advanced individual freedoms Contrast the Romantic Movement, which extolled the expression of the imagination and feelings, with the extreme naturalism characteristic of Emile Zola's works, in which the realities of the world are examined precisely and without idealization.
• Explain how the theories of Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein influenced the form and content of literary works.
• Survey modern European literature from the end of the nineteenth century to World War II, an era that witnessed rapid social changes, the accelerating introduction of new technologies, and the tumult of warfare and widespread economic depression.

• Literature > European Literature > The Enlightenment And The Twentieth Century
• Reason and Enlightenment (Runtime: 13:28)
• Romanticism and Realism (Runtime: 14:58)
• The Beginnings of Modern Literature (Runtime: 16:06)