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The Ethics of Modernism

Moral Ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett

  • Paperback
  • 196 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm

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For scholars and enthusiasts of modernist literature

Illuminates ethical perspectives in modernist texts

You will gain fresh insights into moral ideas in art

This book explores the ethical dimensions of modernist literature through key authors.

What was the ethical perspective of modernist literature? How did Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett represent ethical issues and develop their moral ideas? Lee Oser argues that thinking about human nature restores a perspective on modernist literature that has been lost. He offers detailed discussions of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics to illuminate close readings of major modernist texts. For Oser, the reception of Aristotle is crucial to the modernist moral project, which he defines as the effort to transform human nature through the use of art. Exploring the origins of that project, its success in modernism, its critical heirs, and its possible future, The Ethics of Modernism brings a fresh perspective on modernist literature and its interaction with ethical strands of philosophy. It offers many new insights to scholars of twentieth-century literature as well as intellectual historians.
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  • Title

    The Ethics of Modernism

  • Author

    Lee Oser

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    July 2009

  • Weight

    296g

  • Page Count

    196

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521116282

  • ISBN-10

    0521116287

  • Eden Code

    4574757

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