Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism
Jessica Berman
Abstract
This book demonstrates how modernist narrative connects ethical attitudes and responsibilities to the active creation of political relationships and the way we imagine justice. It 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, the book shows how modernism's play with formal matters, its challenge to the boundaries between fact and fiction, its incorpo ... More
Keywords: modernist narrative, ethical attitudes, justice, political engagement, modernism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 | Print ISBN-13: 9780231149518 |
| Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: November 2015 | DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231149518.001.0001 |
