The pulse of modernism : physiological aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1. Experimentalizing Life; 1 / Representation on the Line: Graphic Method as Experimental System; 2 / The Vibratory Organism: Protoplasm and General Physiology; 3 / Visible Speech: Experimental Phonetics and the Physiology of Vocalization; Part 2. Experimentalizing Art; 4 / Algorithms of Pleasure: Art as Expert System; 5 / Liberating Verse: Rhythm and Measure in Poetry; 6 / Sensory Fusion: Evolution and Synesthesia in Art and Aesthetics; 7 / Art for Life's Sake: Kinesthesia, Empathy, and Abstraction in Early Modernism; Conclusion; Notes