The Mental Life of Modernism: Why Poetry, Painting, and Music Changed at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Samuel Jay Keyser

The Mental Life of Modernism: Why Poetry, Painting, and Music Changed at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Samuel Jay Keyser

240 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

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An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one.At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and painting all underwent a sea change. Poetry abandoned rhyme and meter; music ceased to be tonally centere...

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