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Music in the words : musical form and counterpoint in the twentieth century novel / Alan Shockley.
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Shockley, Alan Frederick, 1970-
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English
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Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009.
Description
191 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PR830.M87 S56 2009
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Subject(s)
English literature
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20th century
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History and criticism
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Music and literature
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American literature
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20th century
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History and criticism
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Music
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Philosophy and aesthetics
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Summary note
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.
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ISBN
9780754661993 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
0754661997 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2009003219
OCLC
300031253
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