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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... concern with the purpose of literature . Since Chekhov's work is especially prized for its openness to a variety of ... concerned by passages from the ancient Greek epic poet Homer where Gods commit adultery , which he considered ...
... concerned with the ways in which our selected writers position themselves and their work in terms of these debates . To give a sense of how instrumental and aesthetic theories contrast in practice , I am going to look at two twentieth ...
... concerned with Poetry ' , and that ' All a poet can do today is warn . ' His focus is on ' War , and the pity of War ' . There is no recourse to ' abstract aesthetic standards ' and a firm underlining of the crucial importance of his ...
... concern with the complex liaisons between art and life . Writing in 1957 to Robert Lowell , Bishop praises manuscript versions of autobiographical poems Lowell would later publish in the Life Studies volume of 1959 : [ Your poems ] have ...
... concerned with how the angler's perception of her catch changes the more she looks at it . You might have noticed the nimble way in which the poem reverses our expectations : it begins , almost boastfully , ' I caught a tremendous fish ...
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 |