David Jones and the Self-Conscious Uses of Tradition
This paper will explore the way that the poetry of David Jones, while generally recognised as being modernist, nevertheless promotes a continuation of the Western literary tradition (as opposed to more revolutionary strands of modernism), but does this while introducing a self-conscious understandin...
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| description | This paper will explore the way that the poetry of David Jones, while generally recognised as being modernist, nevertheless promotes a continuation of the Western literary tradition (as opposed to more revolutionary strands of modernism), but does this while introducing a self-conscious understanding of the role and workings of tradition, an element lacking in pre-modern traditional literature. Other figures with a similar interest in the viability of a self-consciously understood practice of (literary or philosophical) tradition, in continuity with pre-modern tradition, but in modern conditions (Thomas Mann, John Henry Newman, Alasdair MacIntyre), will also be discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-33d56997b96145b39ee43df3438012e32022-12-22T00:46:18ZengSciendoRomanian Journal of English Studies1584-37342013-03-0110126327010.2478/rjes-2013-0025David Jones and the Self-Conscious Uses of TraditionPotter Martin0University of BucharestThis paper will explore the way that the poetry of David Jones, while generally recognised as being modernist, nevertheless promotes a continuation of the Western literary tradition (as opposed to more revolutionary strands of modernism), but does this while introducing a self-conscious understanding of the role and workings of tradition, an element lacking in pre-modern traditional literature. Other figures with a similar interest in the viability of a self-consciously understood practice of (literary or philosophical) tradition, in continuity with pre-modern tradition, but in modern conditions (Thomas Mann, John Henry Newman, Alasdair MacIntyre), will also be discussed.https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2013-0025david jonesmodernismself-consciousnesstradition |
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| title | David Jones and the Self-Conscious Uses of Tradition |
| title_full | David Jones and the Self-Conscious Uses of Tradition |
| title_fullStr | David Jones and the Self-Conscious Uses of Tradition |
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| title_short | David Jones and the Self-Conscious Uses of Tradition |
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