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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... example demonstrates , the Preface is full of antithetical pairings , such as beautiful I ugly , which powerfully convey Wilde's point of view : the appreciation of beauty is an end in itself ; if you try to find ' ugly meanings in ...
... example - you should remember that these issues are also germane to the study of plays and 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 ...
... example , she shows no understanding of the realities of trench warfare , while complacently appropriating the language of sport : ' play the game ' ; ' we must all buck up ' . ' Dulce et Decorum Est ' precisely rebukes this kind of ...
... example , ' In all my dreams , before my helpless sight ' , a line with five major stresses ; marked in bold ... examples demonstrate , Bishop's metre is less stable than Owen's . Where Owen's basic model is the iambic rhythm ( in which ...
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 |