Post-War Writing and Aesthetics

Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature Works grade: A Birkbeck University of London (Humanities) course: Modern and Contemporary Literature language: English abstract: The present essay proposes to analyze Philip Larkin's statement: '[T]he term 'modern' when applied to art has a more than chronological meaning: it denotes a quality of irresponsibility peculiar to this century [...] [T]he artist has become over-concerned with his material (hence an age of technical experiment) and in isolation has busied himself with the two principal themes of modernism mystification and outrage [...]' in a peculiar perspective - How far can post-war writing and aesthetics be construed as a reaction against modernism? Exploring these forms intrinsically attached to public and private concerns of the Post-Modernism which were issues to that society I will try to go beyond the text message and understand what Larkin intended to say to the post-modern society and the implications it had in our society after that. Equally important relate the motifs over Post-War writing and Aesthetics and Modernism inside-out world. Finally the essay tangles the different efforts of the Modern and Post-Modern writers when using representative forms of speech and what considers being a more viable and broader definition of that Aesthetics.