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-The intermediate [[postwar period]] separating "[[Modernism]]" from "[[Postmodernism]]" ([[1950s literature]]) is the ''floruit'' of the [[beat generation]] and the classical science fiction of [[Isaac Asimov]], [[Arthur C. Clarke]] and [[Robert A. Heinlein]].+
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-==World War II==+
-:''[[1940s literature]]''+
-*[[Orson Welles]]+
-*[[George Orwell]]+
-*[[J. R. R. Tolkien]] writes ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' (published 1954/55)+
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-==Cold War period==+
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-* [[Umberto Eco]] ''Il nome della rosa'' ([[1980 in literature|1980]] - English translation: ''[[The Name of the Rose]]'', 1983), ''Il pendolo di Foucault'' ([[1988 in literature|1988]] - English translation: ''[[Foucault's Pendulum (book)|Foucault's Pendulum]]'', 1989)+
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-==1990s==+
-*''[[The English Patient]]'' by [[Michael Ondaatje]]+
-*''[[Harry Potter]]'' series+
-*[[Boris Akunin]]+
-*[[slam poetry]]+
-==See also==+
-*[[Aftermath of World War II]]+
-*[[20th century literature]]+
-*[[French literature after World War II]]+
-*[[Postmodern literature]]+
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