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Identity, Aesthetics, and Sound in the Fin de Siècle Redesigning Perception
By Dariusz Gafijczuk
Copyright 2014
210 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
220 Pages
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Routledge
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This book is an analytic and historical portrait of the volatile decades at the beginning of the 20th century. Engaging with avant-garde art and thought, and concentrating on two of the most controversial and still culturally relevant personalities of Viennese modernism - Sigmund Freud and Arnold Schoenberg - it tells the story of a cultural experiment of unprecedented proportions, an... Read more
Introduction 1. The Acoustic Symptom 2. The Psychology of Expectation 3. The Play of the Senses 4. Acoustic Perspectives 5. Echoes 6. Psychology of Distances 7. The Anatomy of Namelessness 8. Schoenberg’s Oedipus 9. Interpretation of Dreams: Theory of Harmony. Conclusion: The Passion for the Real.
Biography
Dariusz Gafijczuk is currently teaching and researching at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.
