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THE ETHICS OF MODERNISM
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 modern-
ist 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.
lee oser is Associate Professor of English at the College of the
Holy Cross, Massachusetts. He is the author of T. S. Eliot and
American Poetry (1998).
THE ETHICS OF MODERNISM
Moral Ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, and Beckett
LEE OSER
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First published in print format 2006
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