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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... become ' cultivated by agreeing with Wilde . We should also note that Wilde's conception of art in the Preface is in itself highly stylized . Rather than paying any attention to the content of books , he repeatedly implies that writing ...
... prose fiction . Since his death in November 1918 at the age of twenty - five , during one of the final battles of the First World War , Owen has become the most celebrated English poet connected with this 7 Introduction to Part 1.
... become the most celebrated English poet connected with this , and arguably any other , war . His reputation rests on the fierce realism and innovative poetic diction characteristic of poems like ' Dulce et Decorum Est ' . Before turning ...
... become ' Like medals with their ribbons / frayed and wavering ' . Poetic structure As we have seen , ' Dulce et Decorum Est ' is organized around the lesson that Owen preaches . It is carefully designed to convey both the horror of the ...
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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 |