English Literature A-Level
Consumerism
What Consumerism means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Consumerism
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A post-war condition of mindless consumption and artificiality that the poem satirises through grotesque imagery such as roasting chickens on electric spits.
Topics that use Consumerism
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Post-1900 – The Movement – The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse, editor Philip Larkin with foreword by Andrew Motion (OUP, 1973) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Bureaucracy and control
- Childhood and Memory
- Commerce and labour
- Cultural decay
- Death and ambiguous renewal
- Death and bodily identity
- Desire and impossibility
- Emotional depth
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