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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... lines of his ' Ode on a Grecian Urn ' ( 1820 ) : " Beauty is truth , truth beauty " - that is all / Ye know on earth , and all ye need to know ' ( 1972 , p.537 ) . In Keats's vision , truth and beauty - as exemplified by works of art ...
... lines insist that the sight of the dying man is literally unforgettable . The warning follows directly on from this couplet , as Owen simultaneously elaborates the description of the process of dying from gas and rebukes the reader with ...
... line . As David West's very literal translation shows , classical Latin poetry does not rhyme . By forcing Horace's ... lines mirrors both the effects of gas on the soldier and the morally twisting impact of Horace's patriotism ; for ...
... lines of the paragraph - ' Dim , through the misty panes of thick green light , / As under a green sea , I saw him drowning ' - are puzzling in a different way . On a first reading , it looks as though Owen is indulging in a species of ...
... swim - bladder like a big peony . I looked into his eyes which were far larger than mine but shallower , and yellowed , the irises backed and packed Here are three points that occurred to me . Line 13 Introduction to Part 1.
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 |