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By Lee Oser

What was once the moral point of view of modernist literature? How did Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett characterize moral matters and increase their ethical principles? Lee Oser argues that pondering human nature restores a standpoint on modernist literature that has been misplaced. He deals exact discussions of the connection among ethics and aesthetics to light up shut readings of significant modernist texts. For Oser, the reception of Aristotle is important to the modernist ethical venture, which he defines because the attempt to remodel human nature by using artwork. Exploring the origins of that venture, its good fortune in modernism, its severe heirs, and its attainable destiny, The Ethics of Modernism brings a clean point of view on modernist literature and its interplay with moral strands of philosophy. It bargains many new insights to students of twentieth-century literature in addition to highbrow historians.

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