Attention for Distraction: Modernity, Modernism and Perception

van Alphen, Ernst

dc.contributor.author	van Alphen, Ernst	en
dc.date.accessioned	2018-04-03T11:45:30Z
dc.date.available	2018-04-03T11:45:30Z
dc.date.issued	2017-10-25	en
dc.identifier.issn	2084-574X	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/24391
dc.description.abstract	Particularly in the latter half of the nineteenth century sensorial experiences changed at breakneck speed. Social and technological developments of modernity like the industrial revolution, rapid urban expansion, the advance of capitalism and the invention of new technologies transformed the field of the senses. Instead of attentiveness, distraction became prevalent. It is not only Baudelaire who addressed these transformations in his poems, but they can also be recognized in the works of novelist Gustave Flaubert and painter Edward Munch. By means of the work of William James, Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Georg Simmel, the repercussions of this crisis of the senses for subjectivity will be discussed.	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Text Matters;7	en
dc.rights	This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.	en
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dc.subject	distraction	en
dc.subject	attention	en
dc.subject	modernity	en
dc.subject	modernism	en
dc.subject	abstraction	en
dc.title	Attention for Distraction: Modernity, Modernism and Perception	en
dc.page.number	87-97	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Leiden University	en
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	e.j.van.alphen@hum.leidenuniv.nl	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1515/texmat-2017-0005	en

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