Modernist commitments : ethics, politics, and transnational modernism /

Berman argues that modernist narrative bridges the gap between ethics and politics, connecting ethical attitudes and responsibilities to active creation of political relationships and the way we imagine justice.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Berman, Jessica Schiff, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011.
Series:Modernist latitudes.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > History > 20th century.
Literature and society > History > 20th century.
Littérature > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature) > Histoire et critique.
Politique et littérature > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Littérature et société > Histoire > 20e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM.
General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Literature and society.
Literature, Modern.
Modernism (Literature)
Politics and literature.
Literatur
Moderne
Politik > Motiv
Ethik > Motiv
Languages & Literatures.
Literature - General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: imagining justice
  • pt. 1
  • Intimate and global: ethical domains from Woolf to Rhys
  • Comparative colonialisms: Joyce, Anand, and the question of engagement
  • pt. 2
  • Modernism in the Zenana: the domestic spaces of Sorabji, Hussain, and Ishvani
  • Commitment and the scene of war: Max Aub and Spanish Civil War writing
  • Arising from the cornlands: the working-class voices of Conroy and le Sueur.

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