Music in the words
Subtitle: musical form and counterpoint in the twentieth century novel
By: Alan Shockley.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780754661993
Subjects: English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Music and literature; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A fugue and a sonata; title: Sound and shape : Ulysses' Sirens' songs; title: Anthony Burgess' Eroica; title: The wake and its music; title: This is a chapter if I and David Markson say so : This is not a novel; title: William Gaddis' Player piano; title: Going whole hog.