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Modernist Commitments Author: Jessica Berman

ISBN: 9780231149518 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 384 Published: 21 December 2011 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 Description: Modernism has long been characterized as more concerned with aesthetics than politics, but Jessica Berman argues that modernist narrative bridges the gap between ethics and politics, connecting ethical attitudes and responsibilities-ideas about what we ought to be and do-to active creation of political relationships and the way we imagine justice. She challenges the divisions usually drawn 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. Berman also makes the case for an expanded transnational model of modernism. Arguing that modernism may be best seen as a dynamic set of relationships, problematics, and cultural responses to modernity rather than a static canon of works, a given set of formal devices, or a specific range of attitudes, Berman jettisons the notion that modernism originates in a few key European texts or arrives only belatedly in other regions. Examining work from the metropolitan centers of Europe, late-colonial India, revolutionary Spain, and the proletarian communities of the Americ...

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