The Mind Of Modernism

Author : Mark S. Micale
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0804747970

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The Mind of Modernism by Mark S. Micale Pdf

This vanguard collection of original and in-depth essays explores the intricate interplay of the aesthetic and psychological domains during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and considers the reasons why a common Modernist project took shape when and in the circumstances that it did. These changes occurred precisely when the distinctively modern disciplines of psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis established their "scientific” foundations and achieved the forms in which we largely know them today. This volume examines the dense web of connections joining the aesthetic and psychological realms in the modern era, charting historically the emergence of the ongoing modern discussion surrounding such issues as identity-formation, sexuality, and the unconscious. The contributors form a distinguished and diversified group of scholars, who write about a wide range of cultural fields, including philosophy, the novel and poetry, drama, dance, film and photography, as well as medicine, psychology, and the occult sciences.

Author : Samuel Jay Keyser
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262043496

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The Mental Life of Modernism by Samuel Jay Keyser Pdf

An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one. At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and painting all underwent a sea change. Poetry abandoned rhyme and meter; music ceased to be tonally centered; and painting no longer aimed at faithful representation. These artistic developments have been attributed to cultural factors ranging from the Industrial Revolution and the technical innovation of photography to Freudian psychoanalysis. In this book, Samuel Jay Keyser argues that the stylistic innovations of Western modernism reflect not a cultural shift but a cognitive one. Behind modernism is the same cognitive phenomenon that led to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century: the brain coming up against its natural limitations. Keyser argues that the transformation in poetry, music, and painting (the so-called sister arts) is the result of the abandonment of a natural aesthetic based on a set of rules shared between artist and audience, and that this is virtually the same cognitive shift that occurred when scientists abandoned the mechanical philosophy of the Galilean revolution. The cultural explanations for Modernism may still be relevant, but they are epiphenomenal rather than causal. Artists felt that traditional forms of art had been exhausted, and they began to resort to private formats—Easter eggs with hidden and often inaccessible meaning. Keyser proposes that when artists discarded their natural rule-governed aesthetic, it marked a cognitive shift; general intelligence took over from hardwired proclivity. Artists used a different part of the brain to create, and audiences were forced to play catch up.

Author : Karen Jacobs
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501725814

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The Eye's Mind by Karen Jacobs Pdf

The Eye's Mind significantly alters our understanding of modernist literature by showing how changing visual discourses, techniques, and technologies affected the novels of that period. In readings that bring philosophies of vision into dialogue with photography and film as well as the methods of observation used by the social sciences, Karen Jacobs identifies distinctly modernist kinds of observers and visual relationships. This important reconception of modernism draws upon American, British, and French literary and extra-literary materials from the period 1900-1955. These texts share a sense of crisis about vision's capacity for violence and its inability to deliver reliable knowledge. Jacobs looks closely at the ways in which historical understandings of race and gender inflected visual relations in the modernist novel. She shows how modernist writers, increasingly aware of the body behind the neutral lens of the observer, used diverse strategies to displace embodiment onto those "others" historically perceived as cultural bodies in order to reimagine for themselves or their characters a "purified" gaze. The Eye's Mind addresses works by such high modernists as Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, and (more distantly) Ralph Ellison and Maurice Blanchot, as well as those by Henry James, Zora Neale Hurston, and Nathanael West which have been tentatively placed in the modernist canon although they forgo the full-blown experimental techniques often seen as synonymous with literary modernism. Jacobs reframes fundamental debates about modernist aesthetic practices by demonstrating how much those practices are indebted to the changing visual cultures of the twentieth century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271047904

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Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark S. Micale
Publisher : Cultural Sitings
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106016962026

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The Mind of Modernism by Mark S. Micale Pdf

This vanguard collection of original and in-depth essays explores the intricate interplay of the aesthetic and psychological domains during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and considers the reasons why a common Modernist project took shape when and in the circumstances that it did. These changes occurred precisely when the distinctively modern disciplines of psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis established their "scientific” foundations and achieved the forms in which we largely know them today. This volume examines the dense web of connections joining the aesthetic and psychological realms in the modern era, charting historically the emergence of the ongoing modern discussion surrounding such issues as identity-formation, sexuality, and the unconscious. The contributors form a distinguished and diversified group of scholars, who write about a wide range of cultural fields, including philosophy, the novel and poetry, drama, dance, film and photography, as well as medicine, psychology, and the occult sciences.

Author : Malcolm Bradbury,James McFarlane
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0140138323

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Modernism by Malcolm Bradbury,James McFarlane Pdf

The period 1890-1930 produced literature that still feels contemporary and few movements can boast such an international wealth of innovative writers - Apollinaire, Brecht, Joyce, Kafka, Strindberg, Woolf and Yeats among many others. This now classic survey explores the ideas, the groupings and the social tensions that shaped this transformation, as well as the literature itself, and identifies the elements of shock and crisis central to Modernist style. Appropriately, the contributors display a stimulating variety of critical approaches and methods resulting in some of the most exciting and scholarly criticism yet written on Modernism.

Author : Joshua Gang
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421440866

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Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind by Joshua Gang Pdf

What might behaviorism, that debunked school of psychology, tell us about literature? If inanimate objects such as novels or poems have no mental properties of their own, then why do we talk about them as if they do? Why do we perceive the minds of characters, narrators, and speakers as if they were comparable to our own? In Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind, Joshua Gang offers a radical new approach to these questions, which are among the most challenging philosophical problems faced by literary study today. Recent cognitive criticism has tried to answer these questions by looking for similarities and analogies between literary form and the processes of the brain. In contrast, Gang turns to one of the twentieth century's most infamous psychological doctrines: behaviorism. Beginning in 1913, a range of psychologists and philosophers—including John B. Watson, B. F. Skinner, and Gilbert Ryle—argued that many of the things we talk about as mental phenomena aren't at all interior but rather misunderstood behaviors and physiological processes. Today, behaviorism has relatively little scientific value, but Gang argues for its enormous critical value for thinking about why language is so good at creating illusions of mental life. Turning to behaviorism's own literary history, Gang offers the first sustained examination of the outmoded science's place in twentieth-century literature and criticism. Through innovative readings of figures such as I. A. Richards, the American New Critics, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and J. M. Coetzee, Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind reveals important convergences between modernist writers, experimental psychology, and analytic philosophy of mind—while also giving readers a new framework for thinking about some of literature's most fundamental and exciting questions.

Author : David Herman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803234987

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Emergence of Mind by David Herman Pdf

An anthology that traces the representation of consciousness and mind creation in English literature from 700 to the present.

Author : Matthew Levay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108428866

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Violent Minds by Matthew Levay Pdf

Levay analyzes representations of the criminal in British and American modernism from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s.

Author : Ástráður Eysteinsson,Vivian Liska
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 902723454X

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Modernism by Ástráður Eysteinsson,Vivian Liska Pdf

The two-volume work Modernism has been awarded the prestigious 2008 MSA Book Prize! Modernism has constituted one of the most prominent fields of literary studies for decades. While it was perhaps temporarily overshadowed by postmodernism, recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in modernism on both sides of the Atlantic. These volumes respond to a need for a collective and multifarious view of literary modernism in various genres, locations, and languages. Asking and responding to a wealth of theoretical, aesthetic, and historical questions, 65 scholars from several countries test the usefulness of the concept of modernism as they probe a variety of contexts, from individual texts to national literatures, from specific critical issues to broad cross-cultural concerns. While the chief emphasis of these volumes is on literary modernism, literature is seen as entering into diverse cultural and social contexts. These range from inter-art conjunctions to philosophical, environmental, urban, and political domains, including issues of race and space, gender and fashion, popular culture and trauma, science and exile, all of which have an urgent bearing on the poetics of modernity.

Author : Maren Linett
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472053315

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Bodies of Modernism by Maren Linett Pdf

Reveals the links, both positive and negative, between disabled bodies and aspects of modernism and modernity through readings of a wide range of literary texts

Author : Jessica Burstein
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271053769

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Cold Modernism by Jessica Burstein Pdf

"Explores a significant but overlooked aspect of early twentieth-century modernism, one that focuses on surface appearance rather than interiority or psychological depth. Looks at the writers Wyndham Lewis and Mina Loy, the artists Balthus and Hans Bellmer, and the fashion designer Coco Chanel"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Peter Fifield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192559357

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Modernism and Physical Illness by Peter Fifield Pdf

T. S. Eliot memorably said that separation of the man who suffers from the mind that creates is the root of good poetry. This book argues that this is wrong. Beginning from Virginia Woolf's 'On Being Ill', it demonstrates that modernism is, on the contrary, invested in physical illness as a subject, method, and stylizing force. Experience of physical ailments, from the fleeting to the fatal, the familiar to the unusual, structures the writing of the modernists, both as sufferers and onlookers. Illness reorients the relation to, and appearance of, the world, making it appear newly strange; it determines the character of human interactions and models of behaviour. As a topic, illness requires new ways of writing and thinking, altered ideas of the subject, and a re-examination of the roles of invalids and carers. This book reads the work five authors, who are also known for their illness, hypochondria, or medical work: D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Dorothy Richardson, and Winifred Holtby. It overturns the assumption that illness is a simple obstacle to creativity and instead argues that it is a subject of careful thought and cultural significance.

Author : Louis Kampf
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041162632

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On Modernism by Louis Kampf Pdf

Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118488676

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A Handbook of Modernism Studies by Jean-Michel Rabaté Pdf

Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist literature. Provides a wealth of fresh perspectives on canonical modernist texts, featuring the latest research data Adopts an original and creative thematic approach to the subject, with concepts such as race, law, gender, class, time, and ideology forming the structure of the collection Explores current and ongoing debates on the links between the aesthetics and praxis of authors and modernist theoreticians Reveals the profound ways in which modernist authors have influenced key thinkers, and vice versa