{"product_id":"optical-impersonality-9781421413631","title":"Optical Impersonality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOptical 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWalter's book certainly and productively opens up a rethinking of optical subjectivity, and offers engaging ways of critiquing the relationship between textual and imagistic form. British Society for Literature and Science Christina Walter makes clear that hers is an account of impersonality whose critical stakes turn on their difference from previous scholarship on the topic. Isis Walter displays her \"individual talent,\" which lies in showing not just how writers like Eliot manipulate impersonality toward their own ends, but also how critics' misinterpretations of these maneuvers have led to an impoverished model of impersonal existence. Journal of Modern Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Eye Don't See: Embodied Vision, Ontology, and Modernist Impersonality\u003cbr\u003eThe Visual Vernacular, Imagetextuality, and Modernism'sOptical Unconscious\u003cbr\u003eThe Modern Image and Impersonality's Critique of Identity\u003cbr\u003e1. A Protomodern Picture Impersonality: Walter Pater and Michael Field's Vision\u003cbr\u003eVision, Anders-streben, and Performance in The Renaissance\u003cbr\u003ePater contra Mérimée: Toward an Imperfect Impersonality\u003cbr\u003eThe Visual Field(s): Framing the Politics of Paterian Impersonality\u003cbr\u003e2. Images of Incoherence: The Visual Body of H.D. Impersonaliste\u003cbr\u003eMixing an Imagist Pigment: Modern Art, Science, and Materiality in Sea Garden\u003cbr\u003e\"Sign-posting\" Impersonality in Notes on Thought and Vision\u003cbr\u003eClose Up and Impersonal: Subjectivity through the Camera Lens and the Talking Cure\u003cbr\u003eBorderline's Aesthetic of Identity Dis-order\u003cbr\u003e3. Getting Impersonal: Body Politics and Mina Loy's \"Anti-Thesis of Self-Expression\"\u003cbr\u003eFeminism and Faces: Staving Off the Threat of Impersonal Negation\u003cbr\u003eOptical Experiments and a Poetics \"Beyond the Personal\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Insel in the Air\": Weighing the Politics of Impersonality\u003cbr\u003e4. D. H. Lawrence's Impersonal Imperative: Vision, Bodies, and theRecovery of Identity\u003cbr\u003e\"Chaos Lit Up by Visions\": Poetic Attention and Its Material Limits\u003cbr\u003eFrom Impersonality to \"Creative Identity\": A Critical Sleight of Hand\u003cbr\u003eVisual Evolution and Identitarian Futurity in Lady Chatterley's Lover\u003cbr\u003e5. Managing the \"Feeling into Which We Cannot Peer\": T. S. Eliot'sImpersonal Matters\u003cbr\u003e\"New and Wonderful Visions\": The Science of Eliot's Impersonality\u003cbr\u003eThe Waste and Repair Land: Impersonality, but with Gender\u003cbr\u003eRedeeming the Still \"Unread Vision\": The Family Reunion's Dramatic Bodies\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: Modernist Futurity: The \"Creative Contagion\" of Impersonality and Affect\u003cbr\u003eA Shared Visual Vernacular: Affect Theory's Impersonality\u003cbr\u003eOpen Ended: Affecting Impersonality, Impersonalizing Affect\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529529696599,"sku":"9781421413631","price":46.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421413631.jpg?v=1731875974","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/optical-impersonality-9781421413631","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}