The Ethics of Modeism:Moral Ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett
by: Lee Oser (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (11 Jan. 2007)
Language: English
Print length: 196 pages
ISBN-10: 0521867258
ISBN-13: 9780521867252
Book Description
What was the ethical perspective of modeist 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 modeist literature that has been lost. He offers detailed discussions of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics to illuminate close readings of major modeist texts. For Oser, the reception of Aristotle is crucial to the modeist 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 modeism, its critical heirs, and its possible future, The Ethics of Modeism brings a fresh perspective on modeist 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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