Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation

by Rebecca L. Walkowitz

Book Overview

In this broad-ranging and ambitious intervention in the debates over the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of cosmopolitanism, Rebecca L. Walkowitz argues that modernist literary style has been crucial to new ways of thinking and acting beyond the nation. While she focuses on modernist narrative, Walkowitz suggests that style conceived expansively as attitude, stance, posture, and consciousness helps to explain many other, nonliterary formations of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231137508
• ISBN13: 9780231137508
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher