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Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism

By Jessica Berman

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
0231149514, 9780231149518
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2537664 bytes)
Series
Modernist Latitudes
Pages
384\0
Time added
2016-09-26 20:48:53
Criticism & Theory;History & Criticism;Literature

Description

Jessica Berman demonstrates how modernist narrative connects ethical attitudes and responsibilities to the active creation of political relationships and the way we imagine justice. She challenges divisions between "modernist" and "committed" writing, arguing that a continuum of political engagement undergirds modernisms worldwide and that it is strengthened rather than hindered by formal experimentation. In addition to making the case for a transnational model of modernism, Berman shows how modernism's play with formal matters, its challenge to the boundaries between fact and fiction, its incorporation of vernacular and folkways, and its engagement with embodied experience and intimacy offer not only an expanded account of modernist texts and commitments but a new way of thinking about what modernism is and can do.

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