1st Edition
Aestheticism and Modernism Debating Twentieth-Century Literature 1900–1960
432 Pages
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Routledge
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... Read more
Preface Part 1: What is literature for? Introduction to Part 1 - Richard Danson Brown Chapter 1: Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard - Sara Haslam Chapter 2: The stories of Katherine Mansfield - Delia Da Sousa Correa Chapter 3: Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song - David Johnson Chapter 4: The poetry of the 1930s - Richard Danson Brown Part 2: Contending Modernisms Introduction to Part 2 - Suman Gupta Chapter 5: T.S. Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations - Suman Gupta Chapter 6: Viginia Woolf, Orlando - Nicola J. Watson Chapter 7: Bertholt Brecht: Life of Galileo - Dennis Walder Chapter 8: The poetry of Christopher Okigbo - David Richards
Biography
Richard Danson Brown, Suman Gupta
