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Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature - Musical Modernism (Paperback)
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Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature - Musical Modernism (Paperback)
Series: 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.
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