Modern Gurrents and Postmodern Tides is the prescribed textbook for the Fourth Semester Minor Course, "Moods of Modernism and Poetics of the Postmodern: Makers of English Literature", under the Mahatma Gandhi University BA (Honours) Programme The text offers a sweeping exploration of the literary and socio-economic landscapes that shaped the 20th and 21st centuries. From the radical experiments of Virginia Woolf and TS. Biot to the subversive energy of the "Angry Young Men" and the polyphonic voices of contemporary Britain, the testbook charts the evolution of the written word against a backdrop of global conflict, social revolution and technological upheaval.