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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... final two paragraphs : ' We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it . The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely . All art is quite useless . ' Conventionally ...
... 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.
... final paragraph ; consider the second verse paragraph , which modulates from the urgency of the gas attack to the speaker's isolated contemplation of the dying man . Owen's choice of words repays careful study . ' An ecstasy of fumbling ...
... final twelve . The first section offers a detailed , fascinated description of ' a tremendous fish ' , while the final section unexpectedly resolves the poem not with the angler bringing the fish home but with its enigmatic release ...
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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 |