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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... cultures and milieux . Each chapter discusses the set texts in the light of the vital critical and intellectual debates either to which they responded or which they prompted . This is the first survey of twentieth - century literature ...
... cultural identities . It is , therefore , more appropriate to think of several contending forms of modernism in twentieth - century literature , which give rise to numerous debates . This Introduction also gives a brief overview of the ...
... cultural problem . Lyrics don't kill people but they don't half enhance the fare we get from videos and films . It has created a culture where killing is almost a fashion accessory . ( quoted in Gibbons , 2003 , p.3 ) Howells ...
... cultural elite of artists and critics , Orwell responds with a conflation of art and propaganda . The recourse to ' abstract aesthetic standards ' mendaciously disguises the fact that we like or dislike books inasmuch as we agree or ...
... cultural and ideological background of young , middle - class officers like Owen . As the historian John Keegan observes of this period , ' Europe's educated classes held much of its culture in common ... 9 Introduction to Part 1.
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 |