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The ethics of modernism : = moral ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, and Beckett /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The ethics of modernism :/ Lee Oser.
Reminder of title:	moral ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, and Beckett /
Author:	Oser, Lee,
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 185 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Modernism (Literature) -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485237
ISBN:	9780511485237 (ebook)

The ethics of modernism : = moral ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, and Beckett /
Oser, Lee,1958-

The ethics of modernism :moral ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, and Beckett /Lee Oser. - 1 online resource (ix, 185 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Literature and human nature -- W.B. Yeats : out of nature -- T.S. Eliot : the modernist Aristotle -- James Joyce : love among the skeptics -- Virginia Woolf : Antigone triumphant -- Samuel Beckett : humanity in ruins -- Technology and technique.

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.

ISBN: 9780511485237 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

563988
Modernism (Literature)

LC Class. No.: PR478.M6 / O84 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9112

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