Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature

ISBN-13: 9781032175874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 208 str.

Tim Dejong

Opis

Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature 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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

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

O autorze

Tim DeJong received his Ph.D. in English at Western University and is currently employed as a Lecturer in the English Department at Baylor University. His academic essays have been published in Modernist Cultures, Research in African Literatures, College Literature, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and English Studies in Canada. His poetry appears in Rattle, Roanoke Review, Booth, Kindred, Nomadic Journal, Common Ground Review, and other journals. He lives with his wife and three children in Woodway, Texas.