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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... suggests that literature is not an end in itself ; it has a broader social responsibility which imposes a duty on poets to make sure that their works are not immoral or untrue . Poetry and art in general have fundamental ...
... suggest that Wilde was propagandizing on behalf of art . Most importantly , Orwell's view exactly reverses Wilde's : where Wilde suggests that the search for formal perfection is ' the morality of art , Orwell responds that it is ...
... 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 or monumentality . Instead , its work of ...
... suggesting that if Pope had any experience of what was actually happening in France , she would find it impossible ... suggest that the poem approximates to a sort of journalism in verse a transcript of real life in the trenches . Such ...
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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 |