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oapen-20.500.12657-526612023-06-29T12:14:31Z The Acoustic Self in English Modernism and Beyond Varga, Zoltan Aldous Huxley English modernist fiction E.M. Forster intermediality literary studies modernist studies multimodality musicalization musical semiotics narrative fiction semiotics subjectivity Virginia Woolf Zoltan Varga bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CB Language: reference & general bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics 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. 2022-02-03T16:18:25Z 2022-02-03T16:18:25Z 2022 book ONIX_20220203_9781000538403_17 9781000538403 9781032025841 9781003184034 9781032025858 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52661 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000538403.pdf Taylor & Francis 10.4324/9781003184034 10.4324/9781003184034 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781000538403 9781032025841 9781003184034 9781032025858 146 open access
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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.
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