{"product_id":"hope-and-aesthetic-utility-in-tim-dejong-9780367861278","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tim Dejong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367861275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367861278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/16\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Tim Dejong","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136033763583,"sku":"9780367861278","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0006de5e-8fab-4fac-aa88-ff3e83018b0e.jpg?v=1770160068","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hope-and-aesthetic-utility-in-tim-dejong-9780367861278","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}