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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... instrumentalists by exploring the critical ideas of Oscar Wilde and George Orwell , and by providing a comparison of two important twentieth - century poems . The second part , entitled ' Contending modernisms ' , Preface.
... importance to western philosophy and literary studies , this view recurs in many different forms in different places . Plato suggests that literature is not an end in itself ; it has a broader social responsibility which imposes a duty ...
... important influence , especially on the writers we consider in Part 1 of this book . In this context Wilde's Preface to his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1891 ) is illuminating . He issues a series of aphoristic assertions rather ...
... important than the way in which a text is written . In a very real sense , Wilde's artist is a self - conscious poseur who revels in the artificiality of his or her ' useless ' work . To see what objections were raised against this ...
... important that we recognize that he is engaged in a form of critical name - calling ) , what is important is the view that ' art and propaganda are the same thing ' . What does he mean by this ? Despite his focus on Marxism , this does ...
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 |