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Music in Contemporary British Fiction: Listening to the Novel de G. Smyth

Music in Contemporary British Fiction: Listening to the Novel

Autor G. Smyth
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 noi 2008
Alongside readings of modern novels (including work by David Mitchell, Zadie Smith, Jackie Kay and Andrew O'Hagan), Gerry Smyth offers an extended theoretical analysis of the relationship between music and fiction, as well as a critical overview of the role played by music in the canon of British fiction since the eighteenth century.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230573284
ISBN-10: 0230573282
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: IX, 240 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:2008
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction: Listening to the Novel 'All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music': The Music-Novel in Theory and Practice The Role and Representation of Music in the Novel from Lawrence Sterne to Anthony Burgess 'It Ain't What You Do...': Musical Genre in the Novel '...It's the Way That You Do It!': Music and the Genres of Fiction The Uses of Music in the Contemporary British Novel Notes Bibliography

Recenzii

'The uses of music within fiction are legion, and Gerry Smyth provides a fascinating overview of ways in which writers invoke the musical Examples... are drawn from the 18th century onwards and include some fascinating insights: Smyth's reading of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure as a Wagnerian novel - structured through leitmotifs - is particularly striking.'
- Andrew Blake, Times Higher Education

Notă biografică

GERRY SMYTH is Reader in Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He has published widely on the literature and music of Britain and Ireland. His previous books include The Novel and the Nation (1997), Space and the Cultural Imagination (2001) and Noisy Island: A Short History of Irish Popular Music (2005).