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The Acoustic Self in English Modernism and Beyond

Author : Zoltan Varga
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000538478
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Acoustic Self in English Modernism and Beyond written by Zoltan Varga and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the analogy between musical meaning-making and human subjectivity, this book develops the concept of the acoustic self, exploring the ways in which musical characterization and structure are related to issues of subject-representation in the modernist English novel. The volume is framed around three musical topics—the fugue, absolute music, and Gesamtkunstwerk—arguing that these three modes of musicalization address modernist dilemmas around selfhood and identity. Varga reflects on the manifestations of the acoustic self in examples from the works of E.M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, and Virginia Woolf, and such musicians as Bach, Beethoven, Handel, and Wagner. An additional chapter on jazz and electronic music supplements these inquiries, pursuing the acoustic self beyond modernism and thereby inciting further discussion and theorization of musical intermediality, as well as recent sonic practices. Probing the analogies in the complex interrelationship between music, representation, and language in fictional texts and the nature of human subjectivity, this book will appeal to students and scholars interested in the interface of language and music, in such areas as intermediality, multimodality, literary studies, critical theory, and modernist studies.

Writing the Acoustic Self in English Modernism

Author : Zoltan Varga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781267930705
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Writing the Acoustic Self in English Modernism written by Zoltan Varga and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissertation maps the different modes employed for the musicalization of fiction in English modernism, mainly focusing on novels by E. M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, and Virginia Woolf. While music is usually present on the level of structure and characterization in these texts, I claim that even its structural applications are related to characterization and address modernist dilemmas regarding the notions of self and identity. I delineate three modes of musicalization in English modernist fiction---the fugue, absolute music, and Gesamtkunstwerk---and argue that they are interrelated with an emerging modernist critique of the subject. Employing methods of narrative theory, semiotics, and musical semiotics, I aim to show how music, in its paradoxical relationship with representation and language, generates an interference within fictional texts, creating an aporia that allows for an analogy with the constitution of human subjectivity.

Jean Rhys

Author : Erica L Johnson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474402208
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Jean Rhys written by Erica L Johnson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 10 newly commissioned essays and introduction collected in this volume demonstrate Jean Rhys's centrality to modernism and to postcolonial literature alike by addressing her stories and novels from the 1920s and 1930s.

British Musical Modernism

Author : Philip Ernst Rupprecht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521844487
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book British Musical Modernism written by Philip Ernst Rupprecht and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth historical analysis of British art music post-1945, providing a group-portrait of eleven composers ranging from avant-garde to pop.

Acoustic Properties

Author : Tom McEnaney
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 081013540X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Acoustic Properties written by Tom McEnaney and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas discovers the prehistory of wireless culture. It examines both the coevolution of radio and the novel in Argentina, Cuba, and the United States from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, and the various populist political climates in which the emerging medium of radio became the chosen means to produce the voice of the people. Based on original archival research in Buenos Aires, Havana, Paris, and the United States, the book develops a literary media theory that understands sound as a transmedial phenomenon and radio as a transnational medium. Analyzing the construction of new social and political relations in the wake of the United States’ 1930s Good Neighbor Policy, Acoustic Properties challenges standard narratives of hemispheric influence through new readings of Richard Wright’s cinematic work in Argentina, Severo Sarduy’s radio plays in France, and novels by John Dos Passos, Manuel Puig, Raymond Chandler, and Carson McCullers. Alongside these writers, the book also explores Che Guevara and Fidel Castro’s Radio Rebelde, FDR’s fireside chats, Félix Caignet’s invention of the radionovela in Cuba, Evita Perón’s populist melodramas in Argentina, Orson Welles’s experimental New Deal radio, Cuban and U.S. “radio wars,” and the 1960s African American activist Robert F. Williams’s proto–black power Radio Free Dixie. From the doldrums of the Great Depression to the tumult of the Cuban Revolution, Acoustic Properties illuminates how novelists in the radio age converted writing into a practice of listening, transforming realism as they struggled to channel and shape popular power.

Eyesight Alone

Author : Caroline A. Jones
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226409538
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Eyesight Alone written by Caroline A. Jones and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even a decade after his death, Clement Greenberg remains controversial. One of the most influential art writers of the twentieth century, Greenberg propelled Abstract Expressionist painting-in particular the monumental work of Jackson Pollock-to a leading position in an international postwar art world. On radio and in print, Greenberg was the voice of "the new American painting," and a central figure in the postwar cultural history of the United States. Caroline Jones's magisterial study widens Greenberg's fundamental tenet of "opticality"-the idea that modernist art is apprehended through "eyesight alone"-to a broader arena, examining how the critic's emphasis on the specular resonated with a society increasingly invested in positivist approaches to the world. Greenberg's modernist discourse, Jones argues, developed in relation to the rationalized procedures that gained wide currency in the United States at midcentury, in fields ranging from the sense-data protocols theorized by scientific philosophy to the development of cultural forms, such as hi-fi, that targeted specific senses, one by one. Greenberg's attempt to isolate and celebrate the visual was one manifestation of a large-scale segmentation-or bureaucratization-of the body's senses. Working through these historical developments, Jones brings Greenberg's theories into contemporary philosophical debates about agency and subjectivity. Eyesight Alone offers artists, art historians, philosophers, and all those interested in the arts a critical history of this generative figure, bringing his work fully into dialogue with the ideas that shape contemporary critical discourse and shedding light not only on Clement Greenberg but also on the contested history of modernism itself.

Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism

Author : Vincent B. Sherry
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195076931
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism written by Vincent B. Sherry and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the relation between the aesthetic convictions and political opinions of the Anglo-American modernists, focusing on the collaboration between Pound and Lewis. It attempts to account for their parallel movements towards the parties of European fascism.

The Nets of Modernism

Author : Maud Ellmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493388
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Nets of Modernism written by Maud Ellmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the finest literary critics of her generation, Maud Ellmann synthesises her work on modernism, psychoanalysis and Irish literature in this important new book. In sinuous readings of Henry James, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, she examines the interconnections between developing technological networks in modernity and the structures of modernist fiction, linking both to Freudian psychoanalysis. The Nets of Modernism examines the significance of images of bodily violation and exchange - scar, bite, wound, and their psychic equivalents - showing how these images correspond to 'vampirism' and related obsessions in early twentieth-century culture. Subtle, original and a pleasure to read, this 2010 book offers a fresh perspective on the inter-implications of Freudian psychoanalysis and Anglophone modernism that will influence the field for years to come.

The Modes of Modern Writing

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474244238
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Modes of Modern Writing written by David Lodge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Modes of Modern Writing tackles some of the fundamental questions we all encounter when studying or reading literature, such as: what is literature? What is realism? What is relationship between form and content? And what dictates the shifts in literary fashions and tastes? In answering these questions, the book examines texts by a wide range of modern novelists and poets, including James Joyce, T.S.Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett and Philip Larkin, and draws on the work of literary theorists from Roman Jakobson to Roland Barthes. Written in Lodge's typically accessible style this is essential reading for students and lovers of literature at any level. The Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new Foreword/Afterword by the author.

Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence

Author : Vincent B. Sherry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107079322
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence written by Vincent B. Sherry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the idea of decadence through readings of major modernist writers such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot.

Songs of Life and Hope/Cantos de vida y esperanza

Author : Rubén Darío
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822385449
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Songs of Life and Hope/Cantos de vida y esperanza written by Rubén Darío and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned for its depth of feeling and musicality, the poetry of Rubén Darío (1867–1916) has been revered by writers including Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz. A leading figure in the movement known as modernismo, Darío created the modern Spanish lyric and permanently altered the course of Spanish poetry. Yet while his output has inspired a great deal of critical analysis and a scattering of translations, there has been, until now, no complete English translation of any of his books of poetry. This bilingual edition of Darío’s 1905 masterpiece, Cantos de vida y esperanza, fills a crucial gap in Hispanic and world literature studies. Will Derusha and Alberto Acereda have provided not only an elegant English translation of Darío’s work but also an authoritative version of the original Spanish text. Written over the course of seven years and in many locales in Latin America and Europe, the poems in Cantos de vida y esperanza reflect both Darío’s anguished sense of modern life and his ecstatic visions of transcendence, freedom, and the transformative power of art. They reveal Darío’s familiarity with Spanish, French, and English literature and the wide range of his concerns—existential, religious, erotic, and socio-political. Derusha and Acereda’s translation renders Darío’s themes with meticulous clarity and captures the structural and acoustic dimensions of the poet’s language in all its rhythmic sonority. Their introduction places this singular poet—arguably the greatest to emerge from Latin America in modern literature—and his best and most widely known work in historical and literary context. An extensive glossary offers additional information, explaining terms related to modernismo, Hispanic history, mythological allusions, and artists and writers prominent at the turn of the last century.

Music and Modernism, c. 1849-1950

Author : Charlotte de Mille
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144382819X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Music and Modernism, c. 1849-1950 written by Charlotte de Mille and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and Modernism is a collection of essays which re-evaluates the significant connections between the disciplines of music, fine art and architecture in the period covering the emergence and flowering of modernism, c. 1849–1950. Combining established scholars in the field with those at the start of their careers, this book presents an exceptional cross-section of European and American modernism through a series of detailed case-studies. Avoiding a simplistic engagement with cross- or inter-disciplinarity, the focus of attention centres on themes that became key to modernist artists and critics: association, perception, representation, subjectivity, writing and language. Accordingly, this book re-thinks modernism itself in the light of both the fine arts and music, to advocate a multiplicity of modernisms from which it is necessary for scholars to construct their own narratives.

Virginia Woolf: Writing the World

Author : Pamela L. Caughie
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 0990895815
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf: Writing the World written by Pamela L. Caughie and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses such themes as the creation of worlds through literary writing, Woolf’s reception as a world writer, world wars and the centenary of the First World War, and natural worlds in Woolf’s writings.

Africa in Stereo

Author : Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199936374
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Africa in Stereo written by Tsitsi Ella Jaji and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stereomodernism and amplifying the Black Atlantic -- Sight reading: early Black South African transcriptions of freedom -- Négritude musicology: poetry, performance and statecraft in Senegal -- What women want: selling hi-fi in consumer magazines and film -- 'Soul to soul': echo-locating histories of slavery and freedom from Ghana -- Pirate's choice: hacking into (post- )pan-African futures -- Epilogue: Singing songs.

Sound Writing

Author : Tobias Wilke
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226817768
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Sound Writing written by Tobias Wilke and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the avant-garde rethinking of poetic language in terms of physical speech production. Avant-garde writers and artists of the twentieth century radically reconceived poetic language, appropriating scientific theories and techniques as they turned their attention to the physical process of spoken language. This modernist “sound writing” focused on the bodily production of speech, which it rendered in poetic, legible, graphic form. Modernist sound writing aims to capture the acoustic phenomenon of vocal articulation by graphic means. Tobias Wilke considers sound writing from its inception in nineteenth-century disciplines like physiology and experimental phonetics, following its role in the aesthetic practices of the interwar avant-garde and through to its reemergence in the postwar period. These projects work with the possibility of crossing over from the audible to the visible, from speech to notation, from body to trace. Employing various techniques and concepts, this search for new possibilities played a central role in the transformation of poetry into a site of radical linguistic experimentation. Considering the works of writers and artists—including Raoul Hausmann, Kurt Schwitters, Viktor Shklovsky, Hugo Ball, Charles Olson, and Marshall McLuhan—Wilke offers a fresh look at the history of the twentieth-century avant-garde.

Sound and Literature

Author : Anna Snaith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108809200
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Sound and Literature written by Anna Snaith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to write in and about sound? How can literature, seemingly a silent, visual medium, be sound-bearing? This volume considers these questions by attending to the energy generated by the sonic in literary studies from the late nineteenth century to the present. Sound, whether understood as noise, music, rhythm, voice or vibration, has long shaped literary cultures and their scholarship. In original chapters written by leading scholars in the field, this book tunes in to the literary text as a site of vocalisation, rhythmics and dissonance, as well as an archive of soundscapes, modes of listening, and sound technologies. Sound and Literature is unique for the breadth and plurality of its approach, and for its interrogation and methodological mapping of the field of literary sound studies.

Virginia Woolf's Rooms and the Spaces of Modernity

Author : Suzana Zink
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319719092
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf's Rooms and the Spaces of Modernity written by Suzana Zink and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fascinating account of rooms in selected works by Virginia Woolf. Casting them as spaces which are at once material, textual and emotional, the volume shows Woolf’s rooms to be consistently connected to wider geographies of modernity and therefore central to her writing of gender, class, empire and the nation. The discussion moves “in and out of rooms,” from the focus on travel in Woolf’s debut novel, to the archival function of built space and literary heritage in Night and Day, the university as a male space of learning in Jacob’s Room, the iconic A Room of One’s Own and its historical readers, interior space as spatial history in The Years, and rooms as loci of memory in her unfinished memoir. Zink masterfully shows the spatial formation of rooms to be at the heart of Woolf’s interweaving of the political and the aesthetic, revealing an understanding of space as dynamic and relational.