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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... artistic perfection can be seen to be counterbalanced by instrumental theories , which argue that literature should teach , persuade , convince and even propagandize . These debates are grounded in studies of key early twentieth ...
... artistic excellence with a firm political agenda . Gibbon was a committed socialist and Sunset Song shows his evocation of a community in north east Scotland just before the outbreak of the First World War . Finally , through Robin ...
... artistic expression is dangerous because the state cannot control the ways in which it is consumed . According to this view , reading poetry and listening to rap can have similar effects : a corruption of the mental sinews and an ...
... artist has ethical sympathies . An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style . ' The object of the writer , in Wilde's view , is to create something that is at once stylish and beautiful : content is less ...
... artist , or at any rate a poet of Bishop's disposition ' ( 2002 , p.16 ) . ' Didactic ' means ' teacherly ' or ' instructive ' ; didacticism is another form of instrumentalism – we might reasonably describe ' Dulce et Decorum Est ' as a ...
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 |