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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... 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.
... death ) , it outlines an anti - aestheticist view of poetry . For Owen , poetry was a way of memorializing the dead and warning the living . But even here , it is worth sounding a note of caution : as Dominic Hibberd has pointed out ...
... death into one about sympathy and survival and the triumph of love ' ( 2002 , p.93 ) . Using the terms Bishop employs in her letter to Lowell , we might modify this to say that the poem conveys an ' illuminated ' incident from the past ...
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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 |