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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... poetry of the 1930s 166 RICHARD DANSON BROWN PART 2 Contending modernisms Introduction to Part 2 221 SUMAN GUPTA Chapter 5 T.S. Eliot , Prufrock and Other Observations 230 SUMAN GUPTA NICOLA J. WATSON DENNIS WALDER Chapter 6 Virginia ...
... poetry from about 1900 to 1940 , we introduce you to significant features of early twentieth - century writing and the debates that such writing has responded to and prompted . You will acquire the critical skills both to analyse these ...
... poetry : ' It has a terrible power to corrupt even the best characters ' ( Plato , 1974 , p.436 ) . For both philosopher and politician , unfettered artistic expression is dangerous because the state cannot control the ways in which it ...
... poetry ? Owen stresses that he is ' not concerned with Poetry ' , and that ' All a poet can do today is warn . ' His focus is on ' War , and the pity of War ' . There is no recourse to ' abstract aesthetic standards ' and a firm ...
... poetry or not material , seemed to be poetry , and all the past was illuminated in long shafts here and there , like a long - waited for sunrise . If only one could see everything that way all the time ! It seems to me it's the whole ...
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 |