1st Edition
A Twentieth-Century Literature Reader Texts and Debates
336 Pages
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Routledge
332 Pages
by
Routledge
This critical Reader is the essential companion to any course in twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range of key writers and critics, the selected extracts provide:
a literary-historical overview of the twentieth century
insight into theoretical discussions around the purpose, value and form of literature which dominated the century
closer examination of... Read more
Introduction PART I: WHAT IS LITERATURE FOR? Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song PART II: CONTENDING MODERNISMS T. S. Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations; Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo; PART III: VARIETIES OF THE POPULAR Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca PART IV: JUDGING LITERATURE Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot; The Poetry of Seamus Heaney; Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise; Pat Barker, The Ghost Road.
Biography
Suman Gupta, David Johnson
