Aestheticism & Modernism: Debating Twentieth-century Literature 1900-1960Richard Danson Brown, Suman Gupta This textbook ranges from the early twentieth-century to the full array of modernisms emerging between the First and Second World Wars. The editors introduce twentieth-century debates around genre, form and content reflected in both literary and critical writing of the period, as well as differing accounts of the function of literature (aestheticist vs. didactic). They go on to examine debates around modernisms, and the various ways in which authors negotiated the departure of the modern from the past in terms of style, form, ideas and ideology. |
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... Auden , Louis MacNeice , Stephen Spender and David Gascoyne . The Introduction to Part I situates the debate between aestheticists and instrumentalists by exploring the critical ideas of Oscar Wilde and George Orwell , and by providing ...
... Auden , Louis MacNeice , David Gascoyne and others . You will read their work alongside debates about the social and political function of literature , through which you will assess the competing claims of poetry as an independent art ...
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Contents
Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard | 19 |
The stories of Katherine Mansfield | 68 |
Lewis Grassic Gibbon Sunset Song | 117 |
The poetry of the 1930s | 166 |
Introduction to Part 2 | 221 |
TS Eliot Prufrock and Other Observations | 230 |
Virginia Woolf Orlando | 277 |