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The Acoustic Self in English Modernism and Beyond - Writing Musically (Hardcover)
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The Acoustic Self in English Modernism and Beyond - Writing Musically (Hardcover)
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Drawing on the analogy between musical meaning-making and human
subjectivity, this book develops the concept of the acoustic self,
exploring the ways in which musical characterization and structure
are related to issues of subject-representation in the modernist
English novel. The volume is framed around three musical topics-the
fugue, absolute music, and Gesamtkunstwerk-arguing that these three
modes of musicalization address modernist dilemmas around selfhood
and identity. Varga reflects on the manifestations of the acoustic
self in examples from the works of E.M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, and
Virginia Woolf, and such musicians as Bach, Beethoven, Handel, and
Wagner. An additional chapter on jazz and electronic music
supplements these inquiries, pursuing the acoustic self beyond
modernism and thereby inciting further discussion and theorization
of musical intermediality, as well as recent sonic practices.
Probing the analogies in the complex interrelationship between
music, representation, and language in fictional texts and the
nature of human subjectivity, this book will appeal to students and
scholars interested in the interface of language and music, in such
areas as intermediality, multimodality, literary studies, critical
theory, and modernist studies.
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