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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... ( written between 1910 and 1922 ) , which Delia da Sousa Correa presents as a distinctively modern and self - consciously aesthetic kind of fiction . She pays particular attention to Mansfield's treatment of gender , alongside her social ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... writing should aim only at being beautiful ' ) and instrumentalism ( ' writing should teach appropriate moral , political or religious ideology ' ) . In practice , most writers and critics find it difficult to sustain either of these ...
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 |