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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... considers an international cast of twentieth - century writers , chosen to reflect a wide variety of literary cultures and milieux . Each chapter discusses the set texts in the light of the vital critical and intellectual debates either ...
... considers the relationship between literature and context . The second chapter focuses on Katherine Mansfield's Selected Short Stories ( written between 1910 and 1922 ) , which Delia da Sousa Correa presents as a distinctively modern ...
... Consider this example : on 1 January 2003 , two black teenagers were shot dead in Birmingham as they were caught in the crossfire between gangs . In the aftermath of this horrific event , the culture minister Kim Howells drew a link ...
... consider in Part 1 of this book . In this context Wilde's Preface to his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1891 ) is illuminating . He issues a series of aphoristic assertions rather than a sequential argument , but for all its brevity ...
... consider the second verse paragraph , which modulates from the urgency of the gas attack to the speaker's isolated contemplation of the dying man . Owen's choice of words repays careful study . ' An ecstasy of fumbling ' couples the ...
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 |