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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... experience ' ( 1970 , p.28 ) . The point you need to bear in mind is that answers to the question ' What is literature for ? ' typically oscillate between the opposing poles of aestheticism ( ' writing should aim only at being beautiful ...
... experience of what was actually happening in France , she would find it impossible to ' tell with such high zest ... The old Lie ' . My reading of Owen's poem has emphasized the ways in which it works as an instrumental text . It is ...
... experience that is painfully memorable . Equally , you may feel that the language of aesthetics remains inappropriate for such a text . We turn now to ' The Fish ' by Elizabeth Bishop . Bishop certainly was no Wildean aesthete ; as ...
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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 |