"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.
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