THE TOPICS OF 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE

1. "Global war is one of the defining features of twentieth-century experience - How did recruiting posters, paintings, memoirs, and memorials represent the war?
2. Another of the twentieth century's defining features is radical artistic experiment. The boundary-breaking art, literature, and music of the first decades of the century are the subject of the topic "Modernist Experiment - Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Mina Loy, who also responded to the stimulus and challenge of the European avant-garde with manifestos, poems, plays, and other writings.
3. Another of the defining features of the twentieth century was the emergence of new nations out of European colonial rule -- 'Imagining Ireland'" -- Easter Rising of 1916 and the later outbreaks of sectarian violence from 1969 (known as the Troubles) in Northern Ireland.

Source:

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/20century/welcome.htm

Soupey! (my word for sorry) in the previous post, forgot to tell the source. Plus, I incorrectly wrote the word "Poetry". It was literature. The features of 20th Century English Literature.