A Twentieth-Century Literature Reader

Texts and Debates

By: Suman Gupta (Editor), David Johnson (Editor)

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Hardcover | 20 January 2005 | Edition Number 1

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This critical Reader is the essential companion to any course in twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range of key writers and critics, the selected extracts provide:

a literary-historical overview of the twentieth century
insight into theoretical discussions around the purpose, value and form of literature which dominated the century
closer examination of representative texts from the period, around which key critical issues might be debated.

Clearly conveying the excitement generated by twentieth-century literary texts and by the provocative critical ideas and arguments that surrounded them, this reader can be used alongside the two volumes of Debating Twentieth-Century Literature or as a core text for any module on the literature of the last century.
Texts examined in detail include: Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Mansfield's Short Stories, poetry of the 1930s, Gibbon's Sunset Song, Eliot's Prufrock, Brecht's Galileo, Woolf's Orlando, Okigbo's Selected Poems, du Maurier's Rebecca, poetry by Ginsburg and O'Hara, Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Puig's Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Heaney's New Selected Poems 1966-1987, Gurnah's Paradise and Barker's The Ghost Road.

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Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
What Is Literature For?
Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray	p. 7
Review of The Novel Today by Philip Henderson	p. 8
Preface to the Poems	p. 11
The Cherry Orchard	p. 12
Review of an English Performance of The Cherry Orchard	p. 12
A Note on Translations	p. 13
Peasant Benefactor and Chronicler	p. 17
Chekhov at the Moscow Art Theatre	p. 18
The Stories of Katherine Mansfield	p. 29
Katherine Mansfield and the Origins of Modernist Fiction	p. 29
Katherine Mansfield	p. 32
Conclusion to Studies in the History of the Renaissance	p. 34
Pleasure	p. 38
Sunset Song	p. 47
Contribution to The Writers' International Controversy	p. 48
Letter to Helen Cruickshank	p. 49
The Antique Scene	p. 50
Aberdeen Bon Accord, Sunset Song. Striking Story of Mearns Life	p. 51
Daily Mail, Four Good Novels. Some Young Authors of Promise	p. 53
Fife Herald and Journal, Review of Sunset Song: A Novel. By Lewis Grassic Gibbon	p. 54
Modern Scot, Two Scottish Novels	p. 56
New York Times Book Review, A Scotch Novel that is Close to the Soil	p. 57
Nationalism in Writing	p. 58
Lewis Grassic Gibbon	p. 59
The Gospels According to Saint Bakunin: Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Libertarian Communism	p. 62
Earth Mother	p. 64
The Poetry of the 1930s	p. 66
Introduction to The Oxford Book of Light Verse	p. 66
The Leaning Tower	p. 72
Contending Modernisms
Prufrock and Other Observations	p. 85
Jules Laforgue	p. 85
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The Blast Manifesto	p. 94
Tradition and the Individual Talent	p. 96
Romanticism and Classicism	p. 104
Orlando	p. 107
The Diary of Virginia Woolf	p. 107
Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown	p. 112
A Room of One's Own	p. 118
Life of Galileo	p. 128
The Epic Theatre and its Difficulties	p. 128
Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting	p. 130
A Short Organum for the Theatre	p. 135
The Dialectics of Galileo	p. 140
The Poetry of Christopher Okigbo	p. 149
Towards the Decolonization of African Literature	p. 149
Introduction to Labyrinths with Path of Thunder	p. 153
Varieties of the Popular
Rebecca	p. 159
The House of Secrets	p. 159
Female Sexuality	p. 163
The Poetry of Frank O'Hara and Allen Ginsberg	p. 169
The Last Avant-Garde	p. 169
Personism: A Manifesto	p. 172
Never Argue with the Movies: Love and the Cinema in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara	p. 174
Mass Culture in America: The Post-War Debate	p. 179
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	p. 187
Cognition and Estrangement	p. 187
Blade Runner's Post-Individual Worldspace and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	p. 193
Mechanical Mirrors, the Double, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	p. 196
Kiss of the Spider Woman	p. 203
Dialogism in Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman	p. 203
Through the Film Darkly: Grade 'B' Movies and Dreamwork in Tres tristes tigres and El beso de la mujer arana	p. 217
Judging Literature
Waiting for Godot	p. 233
Three Dialogues	p. 233
The Idea of the Postmodern	p. 235
Winning the Culture Game: Prizes, Awards, and the Rules of Art	p. 243
The Poetry of Seamus Heaney	p. 261
Crediting Poetry	p. 261
A Slow North-East Wind	p. 263
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