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Reverberating Song in Shakespeare and Milton - Language, Memory, and Musical Representation (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Reverberating Song in Shakespeare and Milton - Language, Memory, and Musical Representation (Hardcover, New Ed)
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In this study, Erin Minear explores the fascination of Shakespeare
and Milton with the ability of music-heard, imagined, or
remembered-to infiltrate language. Such infected language
reproduces not so much the formal or sonic properties of music as
its effects. Shakespeare's and Milton's understanding of these
effects was determined, she argues, by history and culture as well
as individual sensibility. They portray music as uncanny and
divine, expressive and opaque, promoting associative rather than
logical thought processes and unearthing unexpected memories. The
title reflects the multiple and overlapping meanings of
reverberation in the study: the lingering and infectious nature of
musical sound; the questionable status of audible, earthly music as
an echo of celestial harmonies; and one writer's allusions to
another. Minear argues that many of the qualities that seem to us
characteristically 'Shakespearean' stem from Shakespeare's
engagement with how music works-and that Milton was deeply
influenced by this aspect of Shakespearean poetics. Analyzing
Milton's account of Shakespeare's 'warbled notes,' she demonstrates
that he saw Shakespeare as a peculiarly musical poet, deeply and
obscurely moving his audience with language that has ceased to
mean, but nonetheless lingers hauntingly in the mind. Obsessed with
the relationship between words and music for reasons of his own,
including his father's profession as a composer, Milton would
adopt, adapt, and finally reject Shakespeare's form of musical
poetics in his own quest to 'join the angel choir.' Offering a new
way of looking at the work of two major authors, this study engages
and challenges scholars of Shakespeare, Milton, and early modern
culture.
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