""Hope" and "modernism" are two words that are not commonly linked. Moving from much-discussed negative affects to positive forms of feeling, Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature argues that they should be. This book contends that much of modernist writing and...

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1. Verfasser:	DeJong, Tim (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York, NY Routledge 2020
Schriftenreihe:	Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature
Schlagworte:	Modernism (Literature) / History and criticism Hope in literature Change (Psychology) Literature and society Modernism (Aesthetics)
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Zusammenfassung:	""Hope" and "modernism" are two words that are not commonly linked. Moving from much-discussed negative affects to positive forms of feeling, Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature argues that they should be. This book contends that much of modernist writing and thought reveals a deeply held confidence about the future, one premised on the social power of art itself. In chapters ranging across a diverse array of canonical writers - Henry James, D.W. Griffith, H.D., Melvin Tolson, and Samuel Beckett - this text locates in their works an optimism linked by a common faith in the necessity of artistic practice for cultural survival. In this way, the famously self-attentive nature of modernism becomes a means, for its central thinkers and artists, of reflecting on what DeJong calls aesthetic utility: the unpredictable, ungovernable capacity of the work of art to shape the future even while envisioning it"--
Beschreibung:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 14, 2020)
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (x, 196 pages)
ISBN:	9781003017059 1003017053 9781000027570 1000027570 9781000027808 1000027805