<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> 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.</p></abstract>

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.

David Jones and the Self-Conscious Uses of Tradition

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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This paper will explore the way that the poetry of David Jones, while generally recognised as being modernist, nevertheless promotes a continuation of the...

David Jones and the Self-Conscious Uses of Tradition

Published Online: Feb 22, 2013

Page range: 263 - 270

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2013-0025

Keywords
David Jones, modernism, self-consciousness, tradition

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David Jones and the Self-Conscious Uses of Tradition

Published Online: Feb 22, 2013

Page range: 263 - 270

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2013-0025

KeywordsDavid Jones, modernism, self-consciousness, tradition

This content is open access.

Keywords
David Jones, modernism, self-consciousness, tradition