Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature: Musical Modernism (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)

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This volume explores the role of music as a source of inspiration and provocation for modernist writers. In its consideration of modernist literature within a broad political, postcolonial, and internationalist context, this book is an important intervention in the growing field of Words and Music studies. It expands the existing critical debate to include lesser-known writers alongside Joyce, Woolf, and Beckett, a wide-ranging definition of modernism, and the influence of contemporary music on modernist writers. From the rhythm of Tagore’s poetry to the influence of jazz improvisation, the tonality of traditional Irish music to the operas of Wagner, these essays reframe our sense of how music inspired Literary Modernism. Exploring the points at which the art forms of music and literature collide, repel, and combine, contributors draw on their deep musical knowledge to produce close readings of prose, poetry, and drama, confronting the concept of what makes writing "musical." In doing so, they uncover commonalities: modernist writers pursue simultaneity and polyphony, evolve the leitmotif for literary purposes, and adapt the formal innovations of twentieth-century music. The essays explore whether it is possible for literature to achieve that unity of form and subject which music enjoys, and whether literary texts can resist paraphrase, can be simply themselves. This book demonstrates how attention to the role of music in text in turn illuminates the manner in which we read literature.
Copyright:
2018

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Book Quality:
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Book Size:
296 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781351865883
Related ISBNs:
9781315231716, 9781138285651, 9781138285651
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Taylor and Francis
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Music
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