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  title info:
    title: Optical Impersonality
    sub title: Science, Images, and Literary Modernism
  name:
    name part: Walter, Christina
    name part: 1975-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Western accounts of human vision before the nineteenth century tended to separate the bodily eye from the rational mind. This model gave way in the mid-nineteenth century to one in which the thinking subject, perceiving body, perceptual object and material world could not be so easily separated. Christina Walter explores how this new physiology of vision provoked writers to reconceive the relations among image, text, sight and subjectivity. Walter focuses in particular on the ways in which modernist writers such as H.D., Mina Loy, D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot adapted modern optics and visual culture to develop an alternative to the self or person as a model of the human subject. Critics have long seen modernists as being concerned with an "impersonal" form of writing that rejects the earlier Romantic notion that literature was a direct expression of its author's personality. Walter argues that scholars have misunderstood aesthetic impersonality as an evacuation of the person when it is instead an interrogation of what exactly goes into a personality. She shows that modernist impersonality embraced the embodied and incoherent notion of the human subject that resulted from contemporary physiological science, and traces the legacy of that impersonality in current affect theory. Optical Impersonality will appeal to scholars and advanced students of modernist literature and visual culture and to those interested in the intersections of art, literature, science and technology.
  note: Christina Walter.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Modernism (Literature)
  subject:
    topic: Optics in literature
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
  classification: PN56.M54 W35 2014
  classification: 809/.9112
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Hopkins studies in modernism
  identifier: 9781421413631 (hardback : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 9781421413648 (electronic)
  identifier: 1421413639 (hardcover)
  identifier: 2013035781
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 131113
    record change date: 20151206102121.0
    record identifier: in00003465846