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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... critical and intellectual debates either to which they responded or which they prompted . This is the first survey of twentieth - century literature that foregrounds the concept of debate . The sense of debate is also conveyed through ...
... critical formulations and formally innovative writings of T.S. Eliot and others , and with artistic / literary groupings such as Symbolists , Imagists and Vorticists . However , as the Introduction to Part 2 explains , this mainstream ...
... critical skills both to analyse these texts and to participate in these often tense and fascinating discussions . Sara Haslam's study of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard ( 1904 ) articulates our concern with the purpose of literature ...
... critical authority during the course of the twentieth century , it remains an important influence , especially on the writers we consider in Part 1 of this book . In this context Wilde's Preface to his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray ...
... critical standards would be cleared if more people were prepared to say - as he does that ' art and propaganda are the same thing ' . Where Wilde presents art as the disinterested pursuit of ' beautiful things ' by a cultural elite of ...
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 |