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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... poets from his ideal republic because of his sense that poems as fictional imitations of reality were fundamentally delusive . For Plato , poets create ' images far removed from the truth ' , which can strengthen ' the lower elements in ...
... poet connected with this , and arguably any other , war . His reputation rests on the fierce realism and innovative poetic diction characteristic of poems like ' Dulce et Decorum Est ' . Before turning to the poem , read the ' Preface ...
... poetic description : the dying soldier disappears from view ' As under a green sea ' . But though the idiom of these lines is heightened , Owen was in fact describing what could be seen of a mustard gas attack from behind ' the misty ...
... poetic description of external reality means that it is hard to extrapolate any clear - cut ' message ' from her work . In the words of her mentor , the poet Marianne Moore , Bishop was ' someone who knows , who is not didactic ...
... poetic autopsy on the fish as it dangles from the hook . It is also intriguing that though the poem is far removed from the battlefield , metaphorically she invests the fish with military dignity : the lines caught in his jaw become ...
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 |