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Music in the Words: Musical Form and Counterpoint in the Twentieth-Century Novel

Music in the Words: Musical Form and Counterpoint in the Twentieth-Century Novel

Shockley, Alan

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Music

ISBN10: 0754661997
ISBN13: 9780754661993
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 28 2009
Pages: 206
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Can a novel follow the form of a symphony and still succeed as a novel? Can musical counterpoint be mimicked by words on a page? Alan Shockley begins looking for answers by examining music's appeal for novelists and exploring two brief works, a prose fugue by Douglas Hofstadter, and a short story by Anthony Burgess modeled after a Mozart symphony. Analyses of three large, emblematic attempts at musical writing follow along with discussions on two recent brief novels. From the perspective of a composer, Shockley offers the reader fresh tools for approaching these dense and often daunting texts.

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