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Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and Science
Michael Golston
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Description for Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and Science
In the half-century between 1890 and 1950, a variety of fields and disciplines, from musicology and literary studies to biology, psychology, genetics, and eugenics, expressed a profound interest in the subject of rhythm. This book examines psychological and physiological experiments that proved that races responded differently to rhythmic stimuli. Num Pages: 296 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
In the half-century between 1890 and 1950, a variety of fields and disciplines, from musicology and literary studies to biology, psychology, genetics, and eugenics, expressed a profound interest in the subject of rhythm. In this book, Michael Golston recovers much of the work done in this area and situates it in the society, politics, and culture of the Modernist period. He then filters selected Modernist poems through this archive to demonstrate that innovations in prosody, form, and subject matter are based on a largely forgotten ideology of rhythm and that beneath Modernist prosody is a science and an accompanying technology. ... Read more
In the half-century between 1890 and 1950, a variety of fields and disciplines, from musicology and literary studies to biology, psychology, genetics, and eugenics, expressed a profound interest in the subject of rhythm. In this book, Michael Golston recovers much of the work done in this area and situates it in the society, politics, and culture of the Modernist period. He then filters selected Modernist poems through this archive to demonstrate that innovations in prosody, form, and subject matter are based on a largely forgotten ideology of rhythm and that beneath Modernist prosody is a science and an accompanying technology. ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231142762
SKU
V9780231142762
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About Michael Golston
Michael Golston received his bachelor's degree from the University of New Mexico, his master's degree from the University of California, Berekeley, and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He currently lives in New York City, where he teaches twentieth-century poetry and poetics at Columbia University.
Reviews for Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and Science
This book deserves to change how we understand the place of rhythm in modernism.
Leonard Diepeveen Modernism / Modernity
Leonard Diepeveen Modernism / Modernity