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Hope and aesthetic utility in modernist literature / Tim DeJong.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeJong, Tim, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modernism (Literature)--History and criticism.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Hope in literature.
- Change (Psychology).
- Literature and society.
- Modernism (Aesthetics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 196 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- Biography/History:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 14, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: DeJong, Tim. Hope and aesthetic utility in modernist literature
- ISBN:
- 9781003017059
- 1003017053
- 9781000027570
- 1000027570
- 9781000027808
- 1000027805
- Publisher Number:
- 90103917598
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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