Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism
(Part of the Modernist Latitudes Series)
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0231149514
ISBN13:9780231149518
Release Date:January 2012
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:384 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:22 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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