Senses that you don't know
Vibrating Modernists
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4364541 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Shail (0000-0001-6117-9591, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-186 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Senses and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-8927 • E-ISSN: 1745-8935 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2752/174589308x306411 |
| OpenAlex | W1971511652 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
The evidence that can be found in support of Michael Tratner's account of literary modernism as an aesthetic formal consequence of the heights of political collectivism reached in the 1910s is substantial, but much of this evidence is also amenable to a reading of modernism as originating instead with the impact of the arrival of cinema as a popular institution at exactly the same time. This article looks at the trope of “vibratory seeing” in a number of modernist fictional and critical statements to compare cinema and collectivist aesthetics as causes of this peculiarly modernist permutation of visual sensation. It asks whether this trope indicates a compulsion to attend to a collectivist mass mind which the author is unable to influence or even speak for but which s/he nonetheless must engage with, as it is perceived as the only force capable of spontaneous social change, or whether it represents the new philosophical provocations enacted by cinema's unique linguisticity, its mute enunciations, its mode of temporality and its world of object relations
Aesthetics · Art · Collectivism · Epistemology · Individualism · Linguistics · Literature · Modernism (music · Movie theater · Object (grammar · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Temporality · Trope (literature · Art History and Market Analysis · Cinema and Media Studies · Law · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
Reflections on violence
Film language
Cinema II
The Skin of the Film
The English Malady (1733) . George Cheyne , Eric T. Carison A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases (1730) . Bernard Mandeville , Stephen H. Good
The structural transformation of the public sphere
The Senses of Modernism
The Great War and the Language of Modernism
Cinema I
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |