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Musical Stimulacra - Literary Narrative and the Urge to Listen (Hardcover)
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Musical Stimulacra - Literary Narrative and the Urge to Listen (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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The title coinage of this book, stimulacra, refers to the
fundamental capacity of literary narrative to stimulate our minds
and senses by simulating things through words. Musical stimulacra
are passages of fiction that readers are empowered to transpose
into mental simulations of music. The book theorizes how fiction
can generate musical experience, explains what constitutes that
experience, and explores the musical dimensions of three American
novels: William T. Vollmann's Europe Central (2005), William H.
Gass's Middle C (2013), and Richard Powers's Orfeo (2014). Musical
Stimulacra approaches fiction's music from a readerly perspective.
Instead of looking at how novels forever fail to compensate for
music's physical, structural, and affective properties, the book
concentrates on what literary narrative can do musically.
Negotiating common grounds for cognitive audionarratology and
intermediality studies, Musical Stimulacra builds its case on the
assumption that, among other things, fiction urges us to listen-to
musical words and worlds.
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