Literary Modernism and Musical Aesthetics
Title | Literary Modernism and Musical Aesthetics PDF eBook |
Author | Brad Bucknell |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521660280 |
Bucknell's study investigates how music, as a discrete artistic mode of expression and a recurring theme in the work of these four writers, reveals the intricate and varied nature of the modernist project."--Jacket.
Modernism, Music and the Politics of Aesthetics
Title | Modernism, Music and the Politics of Aesthetics PDF eBook |
Author | Gemma Moss |
Publisher | EUP |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2021-05-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781474429900 |
Using an approach to music informed by T. W. Adorno, this book examines the real-world, political significance of seemingly abstracted things like musical and literary forms. Re-assessing music in James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Sylvia Townsend Warner, this book re-shapes temporal, aesthetic and political understandings of modernism, by arguing that music plays a crucial role in ongoing attempts to investigate language, rational thought and ideology using aesthetic forms.
Untwisting the Serpent
Title | Untwisting the Serpent PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Albright |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780226012537 |
Modernist art often seems to give more frustration than pleasure to its audience. Daniel Albright shows that this perception arises partly because we usually consider each art form in isolation, rather than collaboration.
Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics
Title | Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics PDF eBook |
Author | Jesse Matz |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2001-08-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521803527 |
This 2001 study addresses the problems of perception and representation that occupied modernist writers such as James, Conrad and Woolf.
High Modernism
Title | High Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua Kavaloski |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1571139109 |
A provocative new study that identifies a deep structure -- that of the political body -- in Frost''s poetry.
Rationalizing Culture
Title | Rationalizing Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Georgina Born |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 415 |
Release | 1995-09-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520202163 |
As a year-long participant-observer, Born studied the social and cultural economy of an institution for research and production of avant-garde and computer music. She gives a unique portrait of IRCAM's composers, computer scientists, technicians, and secretaries, interrogating the effects of the cultural philosophy of the controversial avant-garde composer, Pierre Boulez, who directed the institute until 1992.
Music and Myth in Modern Literature
Title | Music and Myth in Modern Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Josh Torabi |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2020-12-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000294625 |
This book is the first major study that explores the intrinsic connection between music and myth, as Nietzsche conceived of it in The Birth of Tragedy (1872), in three great works of modern literature: Romain Rolland’s Nobel Prize winning novel Jean-Christophe (1904-12), James Joyce’s modernist epic Ulysses (1922), and Thomas Mann’s late masterpiece Doctor Faustus (1947). Juxtaposing Nietzsche’s conception of the Apollonian and Dionysian with narrative depictions of music and myth, Josh Torabi challenges the common view that the latter half of The Birth of Tragedy is of secondary importance to the first. Informed by a deep knowledge of Nietzsche’s early aesthetics, the book goes on to offer a fresh and original perspective on Ulysses and Doctor Faustus, two world-famous novels that are rarely discussed together, and makes the case for the significance of Jean-Christophe, which has been unfairly neglected in the Anglophone world, despite Rolland’s status as a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual and literary history. This unique study reveals new depths to the work of our most enduring writers and thinkers.