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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... ideas of the Aesthetic movement , which retained critical and intellectual authority long after their heyday in the 1890s . We juxtapose aestheticism ( or the thinking connoted by the more familiar slogan ' art for art's sake ' ) with ...
... ideas of modernism in the twentieth century derived from debates prior to that . The debates examined here are presented through discussions of the following texts and writers : T.S. Eliot's poems in Prufrock and Other Observations ...
... idea that critics should respond to books only on the basis of ' abstract aesthetic standards ' . In Orwell's view , though aestheticism is dated ( note that he says that ' art for art's sake ' has ' been discarded as ninety - ish ...
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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 |