2. Two Worlds East and West, 1945–8

This chapter examines how the world was divided into two opposing blocs, East and West, during the period 1945–8. It begins with a discussion of the Marshall Plan, focusing on its implementation and its Cold War consequences, and the Western economic system. It then considers the Soviet Union’s takeover of Eastern and Central Europe, with emphasis on the split between Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. It also looks at the struggle for influence in East Asia and concludes with an assessment of the division of Germany. The chapter suggests that the Berlin crisis was in many ways a symbolic crisis in a city which came to epitomize Cold War tensions until 1989; the crisis has also been regarded as an important cause of the militarization of the Cold War and the formation of NATO.

Experimentalism In Hilda Doolittle's HERmione

Hilda Doolittle (1886-1946) is an American poet, novelist and translator, generally called H.D. In her Autobiographical novel, HERmione unpublished until 1981, Hilda presents her experimental work in which she imposes a narrative form upon her fictionalized accounts of her tangled personal relations. It is a novel about well-known literary people and a story of forbidden desires, it invokes the patterns of the genre to examine the interpretation of sexuality and textuality in a narrative of development. HER is a literary suppressed, figuratively repressed story of origins whose private telling was essential to public retellings of how Hilda Doolittle became H.D. Hilda Doolittle's novel is characterized by being revolutionary , experimenting through repetition of names of people , disguised through specific literary language attacking the patriarchal mode of a stern father and a passive , submissive mother. Lights are shed through a psychological approach on the writers traumatic experiences as a result of war consequences on one hand and personal , agonic experiences due to her doubt about her Sexuality being torn between lesbian desire and heterosexual feeling towards a man she loved but was not able to marry. H.D.'s aim is to create a change in women's state from the conventional treatment of women as an "object" to a new "subject" worthy of description getting benefit from Sigmund Freud's psychological analysis of Hilda Doolittle's character when she was sick. Being an effective imagist and a lover of Arts, she creates a new literary movement depending on common speech and freedom in choosing subjects in a daring style. Since the subject of the novel is about the psychological issues of women's identity problems , feminist critics views like Susan Stanford Friedman , Rachel Blau Duplessis and Helen Cixous's theory of Psychology are taken into consideration in this research

2. Two Worlds East and West, 1945–8

This chapter examines how the world was divided into two opposing blocs, East and West, during the period 1945–1948. It begins with a discussion of the Marshall Plan, focusing on its implementation and its Cold War consequences, and the Western economic system. It then considers the Soviet Union’s takeover of Eastern and Central Europe, with emphasis on the split between Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. It also looks at the struggle for influence in East Asia and concludes with an assessment of the division of Germany. The chapter suggests that the Berlin crisis was in many ways a symbolic crisis in a city which came to epitomize Cold War tensions until 1989; the crisis has also been regarded as an important cause of the militarization of the Cold War and the formation of NATO.