Literary Music (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
192
Utgivningsdatum
2016-11-30
Förlag
Routledge
Dimensioner
234 x 156 x 232 mm
Vikt
358 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781138277991

Literary Music

Writing Music in Contemporary Fiction

av Stephen Benson
Häftad,  Engelska, 2016-11-30
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Music is commonly felt to offer a valued experience, yet to put that experience into words is no easy task. Rather than view verbal representations of music as somehow secondary to the music itself, Literary Music argues that it is in such representations that our understanding of music and its meanings is constituted and explored. Focusing on recent fictional and theoretical texts, Stephen Benson proposes literature, narrative fiction in particular, as a singular form of musical performance. Literary Music concentrates not only on song and opera, those forms in which words and music overtly confront one another, but also on a small number of recurring ideas around which the literary and the musical interact, including voice, narrative, performance, and silence. The book considers a wide range of literary and theoretical texts, including those of Blanchot and Bakhtin, Kazuo Ishiguro, Vikram Seth, David Malouf and J.M. Coetzee. The musical forms discussed range from opera to the string quartet, together with individual works by Elgar, Strauss and Michael Berkeley. As such, Literary Music offers an informed interdisciplinary approach to the study of literature and music that participates in the lively theoretical debate on the status of meaning in music.
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Literary Music is a rare example of an interdisciplinary study, which alone makes it a welcome contribution, although its own merits are valuable for both sister disciplines. ...a very serious contribution to both musical aesthetics and twentieth-century cultural studies. European Legacy

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Stephen Benson is Lecturer in Contemporary British Literature at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of Cycles of Influence: Fiction, Folktale, Theory (2003).

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Contents: Introduction: Music for Reading; 'Something familiar': reading Elgar; Voicing the libretto: David Malouf and Michael Berkeley; Quasi parlandoI: polyphony and musical value in Bakhtin and Kundera; Quasi parlando II: Blanchot and the silent narrative; Contemporary fiction and the music itself; Words without song: Kafka and The Unconsoled; Bibliography; Index.

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