Literary Modernism and Musical Aesthetics - Pater, Pound, Joyce and Stein

Klappentext This study examines the theory and the practice of music, in relation to modernist writing. Zusammenfassung This study examines the theory and the practice of music! in relation to the writing of four major modernist figures: Walter Pater! Ezra Pound! James Joyce! and Gertrude Stein. It investigates modernist writers' engagement with music! from theories about music and musical-literary relations to the composition of music and libretti. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Preliminaries: of music and modernism; 2. Walter Pater: music and the aesthetic resistance to history; 3. The musical aesthetic of Ezra Pound: its sorts and conditions from imagism and vorticism to the Cantos; 4. 'Sirens' and problem of literary and musical meaning; 5. Gertrude Stein and her saints; 6. Endings; Index.

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• Authors: Brad Bucknell, Brad (University of Alberta) Bucknell, Bucknell Brad
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2010
• EAN: 9780521155083
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15508-3
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Theory of music & musicology, Literary theory, Theory of music and musicology