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“Granica przejrzystości”. O zmysłach modernizmu
‘The Limit of Transparency’: the Modernist Senses

Author(s): Jan Balbierz
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Sara Danius; Marcel Proust; History of Literature (19 c.); Technology in Literautre; Modernism

Summary/Abstract: Commentary to Sara Danius’s published in the present issue. The author argues that modernist senses – as coupled with motion-picture cameras, photo-cameras, devices designed for recording and reproducing physical phenomena, all of them incessantly under improvement – started penetrating into areas of the reality never described before and exploring theretofore-hidden fields of vision.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 150-158
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish
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