Hope and aesthetic utility in modernist literature /

Hope and aesthetic utility in modernist literature /

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Author / Creator:	DeJong, Tim, author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. ©2020
Description:	x, 196 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 71 Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 71.
Subject:	Modernism (Literature) -- History and criticism. Hope in literature. Change (Psychology) Literature and society. Modernism (Aesthetics) Change (Psychology) Hope in literature. Literature and society. Modernism (Aesthetics) Modernism (Literature) Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12284425

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ISBN:	9780367861278 0367861275 9781003017059 9781000027570 9781000027808 9781000028034
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	""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"--
Other form:	Online version: DeJong, Tim. Hope and aesthetic utility in modernist literature New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. 9781003017059

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