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.
| ISBN: | 9780231149518 |
| Publication date: | 20th January 2012 |
| Author: | Jessica Schiff Berman |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 372 pages |
| Series: | Modernist Latitudes |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism |
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.
Modernist Commitments features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism
Modernist Commitments is available in Hardback, Paperback
Modernist Commitments was written by Jessica Schiff Berman and published by Columbia University Press
Modernist Commitments has 372 pages
Yes it is part of Modernist Latitudes series