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Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism by Jessica Berman (review)

Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism by Jessica Berman (review) Reviews Jessica Berman, Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism New York: Columbia University Press, 211,0 372 pp. In 24 w 00 hen “Ethical Folds: Ethics, Aesthetics, Woolf ” appeared in MFS: Modern Fiction Stud,ie tshe article altered and expanded my understanding of Woolf ’s writing and enhanced my approach to teaching her works. I have since followed Jessica Berman’s presentations at conferences with increasingly high expectations and awaited the publication of this book with eagerness. The book itself exceeds my expectations. It will be the title I name—reluctant to pass along my own copy perhaps—to advanced students and curious colleagues investigating the links be- tween ethics and politics or seeking an invigorated, transnational understanding of modernism. Jessica Berman presents here a new approach to comparative literary studies that considers transnational die ff rence within imperial languages like English and Spanish, but beyond the European or U.S. metropolis where comparative litera- ture has traditionally staked its claims. This book allows us to understand the early twentieth century’s literary legacy across nations as it is carefully theorized and here investigated in “the living archive of intercultural literary history,” to quote Jed Esty’s succinct description on the book’s back cover. While http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism by Jessica Berman (review)

Eide, Marian.
The Comparatist , Volume 37 – May 12, 2013
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Reviews Jessica Berman, Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism New York: Columbia University Press, 211,0 372 pp. In 24 w 00 hen “Ethical Folds: Ethics, Aesthetics, Woolf ” appeared in MFS: Modern Fiction Stud,ie tshe article altered and expanded my understanding of Woolf ’s writing and enhanced my approach to teaching her works. I have since followed Jessica Berman’s presentations at conferences with increasingly high expectations and awaited the publication of this book with eagerness. The book itself exceeds my expectations. It will be the title I name—reluctant to pass along my own copy perhaps—to advanced students and curious colleagues investigating the links be- tween ethics and politics or seeking an invigorated, transnational understanding of modernism. Jessica Berman presents here a new approach to comparative literary studies that considers transnational die ff rence within imperial languages like English and Spanish, but beyond the European or U.S. metropolis where comparative litera- ture has traditionally staked its claims. This book allows us to understand the early twentieth century’s literary legacy across nations as it is carefully theorized and here investigated in “the living archive of intercultural literary history,” to quote Jed Esty’s succinct description on the book’s back cover. While

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Published: May 12, 2013

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