ISBN: 0748623930

[SR: 3794916], Paperback, [EAN: 9780748623938], Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh University Press, Book, [PU: Edinburgh University Press], Edinburgh University Press, Transatlantic M… Mehr…

[SR: 3794916], Paperback, [EAN: 9780748623938], Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh University Press, Book, [PU: Edinburgh University Press], Edinburgh University Press, Transatlantic Modernism traces the intersection of artistic and moral ideas in European and American literary modernism. Rather than reading modernism as a complete rejection of social morality, this perceptive study shows how early twentieth-century writers such as Conrad, Faulkner, Gide, Kafka, Mann and Stein devised new aesthetic techniques to address ethical problems. By focusing on a range of decadent, naturalist, avant-garde and expatriate writers between the 1890s and 1940s, this book reassesses the moral trajectory of fiction on both sides of the Atlantic.The book is divided into four parts - Part I deals with Decadence and Naturalism, Part II with Symbolic Centres of Modernism, Part III with Sexual and Cultural Difference, and Part IV with Modernist Trickery - to discuss how modernist writers forged creative, but sometimes dangerous, links between personal and social morality. The chapters alternate between considering broad literary trends, such as the European avant-garde, American writers in Paris and the modernist picaresque, and the close study of influential texts, including The Immoralist, Death in Venice, The Secret Agent, The Sound and the Fury, Amerika and Mephisto. In response to the recent emergence of ethical theory in the humanities and the shifting parameters of national morality in the early twentieth-first century, Halliwell's book provides a fresh and timely analysis of the ways in which transatlantic modernists used fiction as a testing-ground for moral possibility. This new paperback edition contains an updated conclusion which explores modernist continuities in the early twenty-first century, literary responses to September 11 and the shifting parameters of national morality., 10236, Modernism, 10225, Movements & Periods, 10204, History & Criticism, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 9928, United States, 10159376011, African American, 10159377011, Asian American, 10159379011, Hispanic American, 10159358011, Regional & Cultural, 10204, History & Criticism, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 491406, American Literature, 468236, Literature, 468206, Humanities, 465600, New, Used & Rental Textbooks, 2349030011, Specialty Boutique, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 9780748623938

Martin Halliwell traces the intersection of artistic and moral ideas in European and American literary modernism, focusing on a range of decadent, naturalist, avant-garde, and expatriate … Mehr…

Martin Halliwell traces the intersection of artistic and moral ideas in European and American literary modernism, focusing on a range of decadent, naturalist, avant-garde, and expatriate authors writing between 1890 and 1940. Halliwell challenges traditional views of modernism, arguing that early twentieth-century writers such as Conrad, Faulkner, Gide, Kafka, Mann, and Stein devised new aesthetic techniques to address ethical problems. Part I deals with decadence and naturalism; Part II symbolic centers of modernism; Part III sexual and cultural difference; and Part IV modernist trickery. In this new edition, Halliwell explores modernist traditions in the twenty-first century, literary responses to the 9/11 attacks, and the shifting parameters of national morality. Transatlantic Modernism: Moral Dilemmas in Modernist Fiction Halliwell, Martin, Edinburgh University Press<

2005, ISBN: 9780748623938

Edinburgh University Press, 2005. Paperback. Used; Good. Sent from the UK within 24 hours. EXPEDITED UK DELIVERY AVAILABLE. Bookbarn International Inventory #2477271, Edinburgh Universi… Mehr…

Edinburgh University Press, 2005. Paperback. Used; Good. Sent from the UK within 24 hours. EXPEDITED UK DELIVERY AVAILABLE. Bookbarn International Inventory #2477271, Edinburgh University Press, 2005<