Musical Stimulacra
Subtitle: Literary Narrative and the Urge to Listen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780367858629
Subjects: American literature
Description: "The title coinage of this book, stimulacra, refers to the fundamental capacity of literary narrative to stimulate our minds and senses by simulating things through words. Musical stimulacra are passages of fiction that readers are empowered to transpose into mental simulations of music. The book theorizes how fiction can generate musical experience, explains what constitutes that experience, and explores the musical dimensions of three American novels: William T. Vollmann's Europe Central (2005), William H. Gass's Middle C (2013), and Richard Powers's Orfeo (2014)"--