Tracing a developing fascination with rhythm's significance, its
patterns, and its measures, across philosophy, psychology, science,
and the whole range of arts, Rhythmical Subjects shows how and why
attention to rhythm came to serve as connective tissue between
fields of inquiry at a time when modern disciplines were still in
the process of formation or consolidation. The concentration on
'rhythm' and its cognates largely arose, Laura Marcus demonstrates,
from the desire to reclaim or retain human and natural measures in
the face of the coming of the machine and the speed of
technological innovation. Rhythmical Subjects uncovers the
disparate routes by which rhythm acquired its newfound ability to
link ancient and modern forms of intellectual inquiry, and to
fathom and re-invigorate temporal articulations of modern
subjective life. Among the numerous intellectual and artistic
developments set in a new light by this brilliantly wide-ranging
book are: the long line of philosophical and theoretical writing on
rhythm, from Nietzsche to Bergson and their twentieth-century
interlocutors; psychological explorations of rhythm as the
fundamental law of life, from Herbert Spencer and Ralph Waldo
Emerson to Elsie Fogarty; more experimental engagements with
psychology's rhythms, from Wilhelm Wundt, Théodule Ribot, and Karl
Groos to the aesthetic writings of Vernon Lee; the history of
prosody; pioneering applications of rhythm studies to social and
sexual reform, by Havelock Ellis, Marie Stopes, D. H. Lawrence, and
Mary Austin (among others); Lebensreform movements and the
contribution of Rudolf Steiner and Emile Jaques-Dalcroze; and
numerous endeavours in artistic and critical innovation, from the
small modernist magazines of Bloomsbury and Paris to art salons and
dance studios across Britain, Continental Europe, and America.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
November 2023 |
| Authors: |
Laura Marcus
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| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
384 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-288388-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-19-288388-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780192883889 |
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