Modernism and Morality: Ethical Devices in European and American Fiction

by Martin Halliwell

Book Overview

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 twentieth-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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349423807
• ISBN13: 9781349423804
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"