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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... question : ' What is literature for ? ' Focusing on a range of texts comprising drama , novel , short story and poetry from about 1900 to 1940 , we introduce you to significant features of early twentieth - century writing and the ...
... question ' What is literature for ? ' , Plato responds : ' To provide moral guidance . ' Because of Plato's enormous importance to western philosophy and literary studies , this view recurs in many different forms in different places ...
... Wilde is reacting against the teachings of Utilitarianism , a highly influential nineteenth - century philosophy which argued that art had to be socially useful . To answer the second part of my earlier question , 5 Introduction to Part 1.
... question , I would say that Wilde uses these highly coloured adjectives as a way of provoking the reader . A statement such as ' Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated . For these there is hope ...
... question ' What is literature for ? ' typically oscillate between the opposing poles of aestheticism ( ' writing should aim only at being beautiful ' ) and instrumentalism ( ' writing should teach appropriate moral , political or ...
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 |