History of a shiver : the sublime impudence of modernism / Jed Rasula
- Author:
- Rasula, Jed
- Published:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Access Online:
- ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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 Retraction -- The 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.
- 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.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780199396320 (ebook)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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