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Altered States of Consciousness in High Modernism.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Altered States of Consciousness in High Modernism./
Author:	Hawley, Lauren.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	256 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International80-05A(E).
Subject:	Literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13425735
ISBN:	9780438781979

Altered States of Consciousness in High Modernism.
Hawley, Lauren.

Altered States of Consciousness in High Modernism. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 256 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2019.

This study examines the phenomenon of altered consciousness as it was understood by modernist intellectuals and poets as a source of epistemological rupture that could catalyze innovations in theory and art. These innovations arose through creative responses to revelations of the unknown that the altered state can instigate. Such innovations in thought are exemplified by Charles Baudelaire, William James, Sigmund Freud, Bertolt Brecht, and Walter Benjamin (Chapter 1), and innovations in art are performed in the long poems of William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, and T.S. Eliot (Chapters 2-4). These figures show that exceptional mental states, religious experiences, intoxication, mystical visions, love, epiphanies, and other such extraordinary experiences interrupt a 'base-line' condition of 'ordinary' consciousness by subverting the Freudian ego's automatic censorship of destabilizing content. With the ego's controls subverted, the subject may grow conscious of James' "regions" of exceptional experiences whose causes and significance were unfamiliar to modern rational secular discourses, and which were experienced as aesthetic, in the Greek sense of the term. Modernists explored these internal territories, examined the philosophical, religious, and socio-political spheres through perspectives of altered consciousness, and creatively assimilated the content of these insights into communicable frames of reference.

ISBN: 9780438781979Subjects--Topical Terms:

537498
Literature.

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