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Borrowed Forms - The Music and Ethics of Transnational Fiction (Hardcover)
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Borrowed Forms - The Music and Ethics of Transnational Fiction (Hardcover)
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library. Borrowed Forms
examines the use of music by contemporary novelists and critics
from across the Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone worlds.
Through readings of Nancy Huston, Maryse Conde, J. M. Coetzee,
Assia Djebar, Julio Cortazar, and other late twentieth-century
novelists, the book shows how writers deploy musical strategies to
expand the possibilities of the novel in response to the demands of
transnational citizenship. The book transcends disciplinary
boundaries, to reveal the entanglement of musical and narrative
forms in ethical, historical, and political questions. Critics from
Mikhail Bakhtin to Edward Said established musical forms as an
indispensable framework for understanding the novel. This study
argues that the turn to music in late twentieth century fiction is
linked to new questions of authority and representation, as writers
seek to democratize the novel, to bring marginalized voices into
fiction, to articulate increasingly hybrid subjectivities, and to
negotiate the conflicting histories of the diverse groups that make
up today's multicultural societies. The book traces the influence
of four musical concepts on theory and the contemporary novel:
polyphony, or the art of combining multiple, equal voices;
counterpoint, the carefully regulated setting of one voice against
another; variations, the virtuosic exploration of a given theme;
and opera, the dramatic setting of a story to a musical score.
Borrowed Forms is both a vital reference for all those seeking to
understand the influence of music on 20th-century literary theory,
and a rigorous and interdisciplinary framework for considering the
transnational novel.
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