David Jones and the Self-Conscious Uses of Tradition

• Authors: Martin Potter
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

David Jones; modernism; self-consciousness; tradition

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 263-270

Dates

published

2013-03-01

online

2013-02-22

Contributors

author

Martin Potter

• University of Bucharest

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2013-0025