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There is a strong tradition of literary analyses of the musical artwork. Simply put, all musicology - any writing about music - is an attempt at making analogies between what happens within the world of sound and language itself. This study considers this analogy from the opposite perspective: authors attempting to structure words using musical forms and techniques. It's a viewpoint much more rarely explored, and none of the extant studies of novelists' musical techniques have been done by musicians. Can a novel follow the form of a symphony and still succeed as a novel? Can musical counterpoint be mimicked by words on a page? Alan Shockley begins looking for answers by examining music's appeal for novelists, and then explores two brief works, a prose fugue by Douglas Hofstadter, and a short story by Anthony Burgess modeled after a Mozart symphony. Analyses of three large, emblematic attempts at musical writing follow. The much debated 'Sirens' episode of James Joyce's "Ulysses", which the author famously likened to a fugue, Burgess' largely ignored "Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements", patterned on Beethoven's "Eroica", and Joyce's "Finnegans Wake", which Shockley examines as an attempt at composing a fully musicalized language. After these three larger analyses, Shockley discusses two quite recent brief novels, William Gaddis' novella "Agape Agape" and David Markson's "This is not a Novel", proposing that each of these confounding texts coheres elegantly when viewed as a musically-structured work. From the perspective of a composer, Shockley offers the reader fresh tools for approaching these dense and often daunting texts.

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• Plný název: Music in the Words: Musical Form and Counterpoint in the Twentieth-Century Novel
• Autor: Alan Shockley
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 206
• EAN: 9780754661993
• ISBN: 0754661997
• ID: 04680661
• Nakladatelství: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Hmotnost: 540 g
• Rozměry: 234 × 156 × 13 mm
• Datum vydání: 28. May 2009

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