The Ethics of Modernism Hardback: Moral Ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett - Tapa dura

"Oser's book...is written with a rare intensity, with an ethical urgency that prevents it from reducing his commentaries to preconceived opinions or rash philosophical generalizations."
Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania

"Oser's brilliant, stylish argument combines philosophical and literary languages in a manner entirely readable. He is an exciting and challenging writer, quick on his feet, surprising, witty, terse, imaginative, concentrated, and supple. Even very good works of criticism and scholarship are rarely this stimulating."
Michael Cotsell, University of Delaware

"Readers interested in the philosophical and cultural impact of modernism will be captivated by Oser's profound reading of these seminal wrirters."
David G. Bonagura, Jr., The University Bookman

"Oser's book would be of most interest to philosophers, religious studies and literary scholars exploring the intersection of art and ethics, religion and culture."
Alyda Faber, Atlantic School of Theology, Studies in Religion

"[C]ombative and provocative"
Patrick Hayes, Oxford University, The Review of English Studies

"I found Oser's engagement with form and his deep belief in the efficacy of literature to be great virtues in this ambitious and ornery book."
Mariane Eide, Texas A & M University, James Joyce Quarterly

Lee Oser is Associate Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts.