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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... 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 light of the vital critical and ...
... writing has responded to and prompted . You will acquire the critical skills both to analyse these texts and to ... writer or texts under consideration respond to our central question . The idea that literature needs justifying is a very ...
... writing is writing that is used for a specific , extra - literary purpose . But how do these arguments relate to twentieth - century literature ? As The Republic suggests , there has always been a tension between instrumental and anti ...
... writer can have an aesthetic without being an aesthete . ) According to aestheticism , art should be primarily beautiful : it should not seek to proselytize , persuade or in any way influence its audience . Art should be an end in ...
... writing is predominantly a matter of style : ' Books are well written or badly written . That is all ... No artist has ethical sympathies . An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style . ' The object of the writer ...
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 |