The Senses of Modernism : Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics /

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In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely analyzes Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and James Joyce's Ulysses as narratives of the sweepin...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Danius, Sara (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Modernisme (Littérature)
Modernisme (Esthétique)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Modern > 20th Century .
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Orpheus and the Machine
  • 1. The Antitechnological Bias and Other Modernist Myths: Literature and the Question of Technology
  • 2. Novel Visions and the Crisis of Culture: The Cultivation of the Interior in The Magic Mountain
  • 3. The Education of the Senses: Remembrance of Things Past and the Modernist Rhetoric of Motion
  • 4. The Aesthetics of Immediacy: Ulysses and The Autonomy of the Eye and the Ear
  • Coda: The Legibility of the Modern World
  • Notes
  • Index

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