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The Senses of Modernism - Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics (Hardcover)
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The Senses of Modernism - Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics (Hardcover)
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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 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 reproducing sense data.
Sparked by innovations such as chronophotography, phonography,
radiography, cinematography, and technologies of speed, this sudden
shift in perceptual abilities had an effect on all arts of the
time.Danius explores how perception, notably sight and hearing, is
staged in the three most significant modern novels in German,
French, and British literature. The Senses of Modernism connects
technological change and formal innovation to transform the study
of modernist aesthetics. Danius questions the longstanding
acceptance of a binary relationship between high and low culture
and describes the complicated relationship between modernism and
technology, challenging the conceptual divide between a
technological culture and a more properly aesthetic one.
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