Modernism and Affect

Julie Taylor, "Modernism and Affect"
English | ISBN: 0748693254 | 2015 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This collection reconsiders Modernism in the light of the humanities’ "affective turn"

This book addresses an under-researched area of modernist studies, reconsidering modernist attitudes towards feeling in the light of the humanities’ turn to affect. The eleven original chapters and chapter-length introduction consider the affective dimensions of a range of forms and media – including literature, architecture, philosophy, dance, visual art, and design – tracing modernism from its origins in the nineteenth century to its afterlives in the postwar period.
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