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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... literary histories , we present an eclectic mix of texts and authors to convey a broader sense of twentieth - century literary writing . The book considers an international cast of twentieth - century writers , chosen to reflect a wide ...
... literary modernism and what it means to be a literary modernist . Some of the debates discussed in the first part are naturally picked up again here , since attempts at understanding the modernism of literary texts and authors are ...
... 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 on poets to make sure that their ...
... literary criticism , though he was a socialist and fought in support of the government during the Spanish Civil War . Read Orwell's review of The Novel Today by Philip Henderson ( Reader , Item 2 ) . Paying particular attention to the ...
... literary texts . Such a comparison might lead us to believe that aestheticism and instrumentalism are critical opposites and that the two positions never overlap . Yet literary texts seldom fit such neat categories . The Picture of ...
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 |