Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231149518)

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.

Author: Jessica Berman
ISBN-10: 0231149514
ISBN-13: 9780231149518
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2012
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2012