The Mental Life of Modernism
Why Poetry, Painting, and Music Changed at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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 th…
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- ISBN: 978-0-262-04349-6
- EAN: 9780262043496
- Produktnummer: 32665574
- Verlag: MIT Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
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Samuel Jay Keyser is Peter de Florez Emeritus Professor in MIT's Department of Linguistics and Philosophy and Special Assistant to the Chancellor. Head of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy from 1977 to 1998, he also held the positions of Director of the Center for Cognitive Science and Associate Provost.
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