Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism

by Jessica Berman

Book Overview

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...

• 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