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Poe and the Idea of Music: Failure, Transcendence, and Dark Romanticism - Couverture souple

Livre 3 sur 4: Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe

McAdams, Charity

 
9781611462067: Poe and the Idea of Music: Failure, Transcendence, and Dark Romanticism
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ISBN 10 : 1611462061 ISBN 13 : 9781611462067
Editeur : Lehigh University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Edgar Allan Poe often set the scenes of his stories and poems with music: angels have the heartstrings of lutes, spirits dance, and women speak with melodic voices. These musical ideas appear to mimic the ways other authors, particularly Romanticists, used music in their works to represent a spiritual ideal artistic realm. Music brought forth the otherworldly, and spoke to the possible transcendence of the human spirit. Yet, Poe's music differs from these Romantic notions in ways that, although not immediately perceptible in each individual instance, cohere to invert Romantic idealism. For Poe, artistic transcendence is impossible, the metaphysical realm is unreachable, and humans cannot perceive anything but their own failure of spirit. In this book, I show how we can look at Poe's poems and stories on the whole to discover this, and in doing so, unpack some of Poe's mysticism along the way.

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À propos de l'auteur

Charity McAdams is professor in the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University.

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Éditeur
Lehigh University Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1611462061
ISBN 13 
9781611462067
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
169
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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