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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... turn to a review by George Orwell from 1936. Like much of Orwell's journalism , it is a characteristically pugnacious piece of writing – he has very little patience with Marxist literary criticism , though he was a socialist and fought ...
... turning to the poem , read the ' Preface ' by Owen ( Reader , Item 3 ) . What position does Owen take here - does he seem closer to an aestheticist or an instrumental view of poetry ? Owen stresses that he is ' not concerned with Poetry ...
... turn now to ' The Fish ' by Elizabeth Bishop . Bishop certainly was no Wildean aesthete ; as Jamie McKendrick has argued , her work depends on ' an aesthetic of what really happened ' , which is nevertheless ' at a considerable remove ...
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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 |