Cultural fragmentation
What Cultural fragmentation means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The fractured state of post-war European civilisation, epitomised by the Modernist struggle to construct meaning from ruins.
The fractured, rootless modern society represented by cosmopolitan figures who consume but cannot create.
Topics that use Cultural fragmentation
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Post-1900 – The Modernist Period – T S Eliot: Selected Poems (Faber, 2009) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Ageing and decay
- Breakdown of communication
- Class disparity
- Death and mortality
- Dissociation of sensibility
- Intellect versus physicality
- Modern alienation
- Modern spiritual decay
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