Music in the words : musical form and counterpoint in the twentieth century novel / Alan Shockley.

Author
Shockley, Alan Frederick, 1970- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009.
Description
191 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    There is a strong tradition of literary analyses of the musical artwork. Simply put, musicology - any writing about music - is an attempt at making analogies between what happens within the world of sound and language itself. This document considers this analogy from the opposite perspective : authors attempting to structure words using musical forms and techniques.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-188) and index.
    Contents
    • A fugue and a sonata
    • Sound and shape : Ulysses' sirens' songs
    • Anthony Burgess' Eroica
    • The Wake and its music
    • This is a chapter if I and David Markson say so : This is not a novel
    • William Gaddis' player piano
    • Going whole hog.
    ISBN
    • 9780754661993 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 0754661997 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2009003219
    OCLC
    300031253
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