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Optical impersonality : science, images, and literary modernism /

"Western accounts of human vision before the nineteenth century tended to separate the bodily eye from the rational mind. This model gave way in the mid-nineteenth century to one in which the thinking subject, perceiving body, perceptual object, and material world could not be so easily separat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walter, Christina, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Colección:Hopkins studies in modernism.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Eye don't see: embodied vision, ontology, and modernist impersonality
  • A protomodern picture impersonality: Walter Pater and Michael Field's vision
  • Images of incoherence: the visual body of H.D. impersonaliste
  • Getting impersonal: body politics and Mina Loy's "anti-thesis of self-expression"
  • D.H. Lawrence's impersonal imperative: vision, bodies, and the recovery of identity
  • Managing the "feeling into which we cannot peer": T.S. Eliot's impersonal matters
  • Afterword. Modernist futurity: the "creative contagion" of impersonality and affect.