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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... 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 variety of literary ...
... presents as a distinctively modern and self - consciously aesthetic kind of fiction . She pays particular attention to Mansfield's treatment of gender , alongside her social and literary contexts . In the third chapter , David Johnson ...
... presents art as the disinterested pursuit of ' beautiful things ' by a cultural elite of artists and critics , Orwell responds with a conflation of art and propaganda . The recourse to ' abstract aesthetic standards ' mendaciously ...
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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 |