{"product_id":"hope-and-aesthetic-utility-in-modernist-literature","title":"Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Hope\" and \"modernism\" are two words that are not commonly linked. Moving from much-discussed negative affects to positive forms of feeling, \u003ci\u003eHope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54237663625560,"sku":"9781032175874","price":56.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032175874.jpg?v=1769562034","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/hope-and-aesthetic-utility-in-modernist-literature","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}