Music writing literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida
By: Peter Dayan.
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Music and literature.; Music and language.; Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Translating the raindrop; title: A sermon on the violin; title: Baudelaire's Wagner : the indescribable, the untranslatable, the inaudible; title: Keeping the voice of the nightingale alive in the age of mechanical reproduction; title: On the evidence of Mallarmé's music; title: How music enables Proust to write paradise lost; title: "Song must write" : Roland Barthes's hallucinations; title: "Sing me a song to make death tolerable" : music in mourning for Derrida.