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  title info:
    title: Hope and aesthetic utility in modernist literature
  name:
    name part: DeJong, Tim
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 196 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: ""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"--
  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.
  note: Tim DeJong.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Modernism (Literature)
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Hope in literature
  subject:
    topic: Change (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Literature and society
  subject:
    topic: Modernism (Aesthetics)
  subject:
    topic: Change (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Hope in literature
  subject:
    topic: Literature and society
  subject:
    topic: Modernism (Aesthetics)
  subject:
    topic: Modernism (Literature)
  classification: PN56.M54 D45 2020
  classification: 809/.9112
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    title info:
      title: Hope and aesthetic utility in modernist literature
    name:
      name part: DeJong, Tim.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
    identifier: (DLC) 2019055784
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    title info:
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  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200103
    record change date: 20250318220804.9
    record identifier: in00004167310
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng