Literary Music - Writing Music in Contemporary Fiction

Zusatztext '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 Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext Focusing on fictional and theoretical texts! this book proposes literature! narrative fiction in particular! as a singular form of musical performance. It offers an informed interdisciplinary approach to the study of literature and music that participates in the theoretical debate on the status of meaning in music. Zusammenfassung Focusing on fictional and theoretical texts, this book proposes literature, narrative fiction in particular, as a singular form of musical performance. It offers an informed interdisciplinary approach to the study of literature and music that participates in the theoretical debate on the status of meaning in music. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Benson, Stephen (University of East Anglia Benson
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.07.2006
• EAN: 9780754635536
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-3553-6
• No. of pages: 186
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Music: styles and genres, Music: styles & genres, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form