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Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism

Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism

Berman, Jessica

Paperback

Series: Modernist Latitudes

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0231149514
ISBN13: 9780231149518
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Jan 3 2012
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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