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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... sense of twentieth - century literary writing . The book considers an international cast of twentieth - century writers , chosen to reflect a wide variety of literary cultures and milieux . Each chapter discusses the set texts in the ...
... sense of shock . The word ' memorialize ' suggests something calm , or at least controlled , like a war memorial , in which a sculptor creates a public work that embodies a sense of communal loss . Owen's poem has none of this calmness ...
... sense , it can be aligned ( at least temporarily ) with Wilde's conception of art as something that is fundamentally ' useless ' . ' The Fish ' is not a work of persuasion or instruction . But we might want to say a little more about ...
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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 |