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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... give rise to numerous debates . This Introduction also gives a brief overview of the manner in which ideas of modernism in the twentieth century derived from debates prior to that . The debates examined here are presented through ...
... fact that we like or dislike books inasmuch as we agree or disagree with the opinions which they express . Like Wilde , Orwell gives a deliberately provocative statement of his views . 6 Part 1 What is literature for ?
... gives a deliberately provocative statement of his views . As the rest of the review makes clear , Orwell is ... give a sense of how instrumental and aesthetic theories contrast in practice , I am going to look at two twentieth - century ...
... ' is a poem with a definite moral agenda , we should not restrict our reading to its moralizing features alone . You could argue that the poem preaches an effective sermon because it gives its readers 11 Introduction to Part 1.
... gives its readers an aesthetic 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 ...
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 |