Author : Anthony Cuda
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Book Synopsis The Passions of Modernism by : Anthony Cuda
Download or read book The Passions of Modernism written by Anthony Cuda and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: consciousness, and the life of emotions. The modernist artistic process, Cuda suggests, is a register of the mind's encounter with forces beyond its control." "Resuscitating the classical definition of passion from the Latin passio, "to be moved" or "to be acted on," Cuda's study demonstrates that the modernist attraction to passivity arises from a desire to gauge the limits of the active mind and to rethink psychology and aesthetics from the perspective of the moved instead of the mover. Focusing on well-known texts as well as uncollected and archival materials - such as Yeats's letters and Eliot's prose - Cuda sheds new light on four canonical writers by examining their work in terms of "passion scenes," vivid, intense tropes, situated somewhere between exhilaration and terror, that recur with insistent regularity over an artist's entire career, exerting an unusual psychological force on the creative mind that conjures them. Cuda also offers a corrective to debates about --