Hope and aesthetic utility in modernist literature /
""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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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2020.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Contexts of Modernist Hope
- Chapter One: The Image in the Mirror: Aesthetic Utility in Late James
- Chapter Two: Screened Anxieties: Hope and Fear in D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation
- Chapter Three: Unpredictable Texts: H.D.'s Grammar of Creation
- Chapter Four: Recovering Democracy: Unfashionable Hope in Melvin B. Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia
- Chapter Five: Refusing Silence: Art as Deferment in Waiting for Godot and Endgame
- Coda: Legacies of Modernist Hope: Poetic Unknowing and the Call to Wonder.
