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Author Rasula, Jed, author.

Title History of a shiver : the sublime impudence of modernism / Jed Rasula.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; History of a Shiver; Copyright; Contents; Preface: The Language of the Listening Eye; Acknowledgments; Photography Credits; About the Companion Website; Introduction: Oblique Modernism; 1. Listening to Incense: Melomania and the Pathos of Emancipation; Episodes in the History of a Shiver; Ut Pictura Musica; 2. Sublime Impudence: Synesthesia and Music from Romanticism to Modernism; Keyboards of the Spirit; The New Laocoon; 3. Wagnerism: A Telephone from the Beyond; Time Becomes Space; "Wagner Is a Neurosis": A Case Study; iPod Wagnerism: From Vice to Device
4. Drawing a Blank: Symbolist RetractionThe Theater, a Pretext for Dreams; Trusting the Nameless; Seeing with Eyes Closed; Rites of the Dream; The Emotion of Multitude; The Legacy of Symbolism; 5. Afternoon of a Faun: Pictorialism, Dance, and the American Arcady; Panpipes in the American Arcadia; Recovering the Ugliness; 6. Fourth Dimension, Sixth Sense: Or Sublime Impudence Revisited; 7. Endless Melody: A Theoretical Excursion; Meaningfulness: The Omnianonymous Melody; The Volcanic Sublime; Coda: Moments, Monuments, and Modernism; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary A sweeping cultural history that draws on music, literature, painting, and film, 'History of a Shiver' uncovers how art pioneered in the 19th century provided the foundation for modernist aesthetics.
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Subject Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Literature)
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Literature, Modern.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Modernism (Aesthetics)
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Rasula, Jed. History of a Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism. Cary : Oxford University Press, ©2015 9780199396290
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