Aestheticism & Modernism: Debating Twentieth-century Literature 1900-1960

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Richard Danson Brown, Suman Gupta
Psychology Press, 2005 - Literary Collections - 445 pages

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.
This wide-ranging volume is not only ideal as the first part of a course on twentieth-century literature, but also as a companion to courses on modernist literature and culture.
Texts examined in detail include:
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Mansfield's Short Stories, poetry of the 1930s, Gibbon's Sunset Song, Eliot's Prufrock, Brecht's Galileo, Woolf's Orlando, Okigbo's Selected Poems.

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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
Bertolt Brecht Life of Galileo
324
The poetry of Christopher Okigbo
375
Reader References
402
Appendix
406
Acknowledgements
427
Index
429
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