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Listening in: Music, Mind, and the Modernist Narrative - Couverture souple

Prieto, Eric

 
9780803222359: Listening in: Music, Mind, and the Modernist Narrative
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0803222351 ISBN 13 : 9780803222359
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2007

Synopsis

What can music teach a novelist, autobiographer, or playwright about the art of telling stories? The musical play of forms and sounds seems initially to have little to do with the representational function of the traditional narrative genres. Yet throughout the modernist era, music has been invoked as a model for narrative in its specifically mimetic dimension. Although modernist writers may conceive of musical communication in widely divergent ways, they have tended to agree on one crucial point: that music can help transform narrative into a medium better adapted to the representation of consciousness. Eric Prieto studies the twentieth-century evolution of this use of music, with particular emphasis on the postwar Parisian avant-garde. For such writers as Samuel Beckett, Michel Leiris, and Robert Pinget, music provides a number of guiding metaphors for the inwardly directed mode of mimesis that Prieto calls "listening in," where the object of representation is not the outside world but the subtly modulating relations between consciousness and world. This kind of semiotic boundary crossing between music and literature is inherently metaphorical, but, as Prieto's analyses of Beckett, Leiris, and Pinget show, these interart analogies provide valuable clues for bringing to light the unspoken assumptions, obscurely understood principles, and extra-literary aspirations that gave such urgency to the modernist quest to better represent the mind in action. Eric Prieto is an assistant professor of French at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Eric Prieto is an assistant professor of French at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803222351
ISBN 13 
9780803222359
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
342
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