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Modernism and Morality: Ethical Devices in European and American Fiction

By Martin Halliwell

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0333918843, 9780333918845, 9780230502734
Open Library ID
OL10558191M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
737 kB (754348 bytes)
Pages
274\273
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Modernism and Morality discusses the relationship between artistic and moral ideas in European and American literary modernism. Rather than reading modernism as a complete rejection of social morality, this study shows how early 19th-century writers like Conrad, Faulkner, Gide, Kafka, Mann, and Stein actually devised new aesthetic techniques to address ethical problems. By focusing on a range of decadent, naturalist, avant-garde, and expatriate writers between 1890 and the late 1930s, this book reassesses the moral trajectory of transatlantic fiction.

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