Jed Rasula

History of a Shiver

The Sublime Impudence of Modernism

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Produktbeschreibung

A sweeping cultural history that draws on music, literature, painting, and film, History of a Shiver uncovers how art pioneered in the nineteenth century provided the foundation for modernist aesthetics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780199396290
• ISBN-10: 0199396299
• Artikelnr.: 47870383

Autorenporträt

Jed Rasula is the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia. His previous books include This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry (University of Georgia Press, 2012) and Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry (University of Alabama Press, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface: The Language of the Listening Eye
Introduction: Oblique Modernism
I. Listening to Incense: Melomania and the Pathos of Emancipation
II. Sublime Impudence: Synaesthesia and Music from Romanticism to Modernism
III. Wagnerism: A Telephone from the Beyond
IV. Drawing a Blank: Symbolist Retraction
V. Afternoon of a Faun: Pictorialism, Dance, and the American Arcady
VI. Fourth Dimension, Sixth Sense: or Sublime Impudence Revisited
VII. Endless Melody: A Theoretical Excursion
Coda: Moments, Monuments, and Modernism
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