This scholarly article analyzes the role and significance of English and German literary representatives in world literature during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The study examines the aesthetic explorations of English and German writers, issues of historical memory, and language-related problems within the context of modernism, postmodernism, and contemporary literary processes.

English literature, German literature, modernism, postmodernism

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