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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... things ' , you ' corrupt ' your own judgement . Wilde thus uses adjectives in a way that is at once challenging and idiosyncratic . This is clearest in the final two paragraphs : ' We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long ...
... thing ' . Where Wilde 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 ...
... thing ' . What does he mean by this ? Despite his focus on Marxism , this does not mean simply that ' art and political propaganda are the same thing ' . By citing Catholics as well as Communists , Orwell's ' propaganda ' embraces a ...
... Football's a sport , and rare sport too , Don't make it a source of shame . To - day there are worthier things to do . Englishman , play the game ! A truce to the League , a truce to the 10 Part 1 What is literature for ?
... thing to be done ! - ( Pope , 1915 , p.ll ) It is easy to see what would have horrified Owen about Pope's versified homilies . As in this example , she shows no understanding of the realities of trench warfare , while complacently ...
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 |