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The Acoustic Self in English Modernism and Beyond: Writing Musically

The Acoustic Self in English Modernism and Beyond: Writing Musically

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LinguisticsGeneral Music

ISBN10: 1032025840
ISBN13: 9781032025841
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 18 2022
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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