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History and society
The turn of the century
124
The First World War
125
LISTENING
Modern war
125
The Twenties and the Thirties
126
SISTER ARTS Economics
John Maynard Keynes
128
•
Can Lloyd George Do It?
128
The Second World War
130
READING
The Battle of Britain
(Winston Churchill)
132
READING
President Truman on the atomic
bomb (Harry S. Truman)
133
TOWARDS FCE
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The inter-war years
134
Culture
The modernist revolution
136
SISTER ARTS Painting
The New Artistic
Movements
139
The literary scene
Modern poetry
140
The modern novel
142
GENRES
Fiction
The stream of consciousness
144
•
J. Joyce
, Ulysses
145
Modern American writers
146
Writers and texts
Joseph Conrad
148
Heart of Darkness
149
f1
Into Africa: the Devil of Colonialism
151
f2
Mistah Kurtz – He Dead
153
COMPARING CULTURES
The Colonization
of Africa
156
David Herbert Lawrence
157
Sons and Lovers
159
f3
Paul Hated His Father
160
Edgar Lee Masters
162
Spoon River Anthology
163
f4
The Hill
164
William Butler Yeats
166
f5
Easter 1916
167
COMPARING CULTURES
The Free State
of Ireland
171
Thomas Stearns Eliot
172
The Waste Land
173
f6
The Burial of the Dead
175
f7
Death by Water
177
f8
What the Thunder Said
178
COMPARING CULTURES
T.S. Eliot
and Eugenio Montale
181
➤
HOW TO
comment on a work
182
James Joyce
183
Dubliners
184
f9
“I Think He Died for Me,”
She Answered
186
f10
The Living and the Dead
190
Ulysses
192
f11
Mr Bloom’s Cat and Wife
193
➤
HOW TO
summarize
196
f12
Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes
197
LISTENING
Modern woman
198
➤
HOW TO
talk about a topic
of your choice
199
COMPARING CULTURES
Ulysses as
Modern Hero
200
Virginia Woolf
201
Mrs Dalloway
203
The Modern Age
(1901-1945)
122
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