English Literature A-Level
Fragmentation and Modernity
What Fragmentation and Modernity means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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The psychological fragmentation of the modern city dweller, reflected in Eliot's fragmented poetic form and the trauma of modernity.
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