The Senses of Modernism
Subtitle: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: July 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780801438998
Subjects: Aesthetics; Impact of science & technology on society; Literary theory; Modernism; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Modernism (Aesthetics); Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; French; German; Literature: Classics; Europe; Modernism (Literature); History; Semiotics & Theory; European - General; Modern - General
First sentence: Shortly before the outbreak of the Great War, the French intellectual Charles Péguy remarked that the world had changed more in the last thirty years than it had since the death of Christ.