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The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics

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Description for The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ACG; 2ADF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; HPN; JFC; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 227 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.

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 sweeping changes that affected high and low culture in the age of technological reproduction. In her discussion of the years from 1880 to 1930, Danius proposes that the high-modernist aesthetic is inseparable from a technologically mediated crisis of the senses. She reveals the ways in which categories of perceiving and knowing are realigned when technological devices are capable of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press Ithaca
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801488009
SKU
V9780801488009
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About Sara Danius
Sara Danius is Lecturer in the Department of Literature, Uppsala University, Sweden. During the 2001-2002 academic year she is a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. She is the author of Proust's Motor.

Reviews for The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics
Danius's historical analysis of the complex relationship of technology to literary/aesthetic modernism (emphasizing the years 1880-1930) provides a new and challenging view of high classical modernism.... Danius bases her observations and conclusions on a solid survey of past critical thought; 37 pages of detailed notes and a 13-page index make the study especially useful for advanced scholars. Summing Up: Recommended. ... Read more

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