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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... look at two twentieth - century poems : Wilfred Owen's ' Dulce et Decorum Est ' ( 1917 ) and Elizabeth Bishop's " The Fish ' ( 1940 ) . Though this section centres on poetry - which after all was Plato's chief example - you should ...
... look like . The last two 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 ...
... looks at it . You might have noticed the nimble way in which the poem reverses our expectations : it begins , almost boastfully , ' I caught a tremendous fish ' . Yet this is complicated by the fish's age and decrepitude ( ' his brown ...
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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 |