1st Edition
Music Writing Literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida
By Peter Dayan
Copyright 2006
156 Pages
by
Routledge
154 Pages
by
Routledge
154 Pages
by
Routledge
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Why does poetry appeal to music? Can music be said to communicate, as language does? What, between music and poetry, is it possible to translate? These fundamental questions have remained obstinately difficult, despite the recent burgeoning of word and music studies. Peter Dayan contends that the reasons for this difficulty were worked out with extraordinary rigour and consistency in a French... Read more
Contents: Foreword, with apologies; Translating the raindrop; A sermon on the violin; Baudelaire's Wagner: the indescribable, the untranslatable, the inaudible; Keeping the voice of the nightingale alive in the age of mechanical reproduction; On the evidence of Mallarmé's music; How music enables Proust to write paradise lost; 'Song must write': Roland Barthes's hallucinations; 'Sing me a song to make death tolerable': music in mourning for Derrida; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Peter Dayan is Professor of Word and Music Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK.
’...[an] insightful addition to studies of the relationship between music and literature...’ Forum for Modern Languages ’... this challenging book marks a significant contribution to work on both the links between music and literature, and the paradoxes and complexities of French literary thought of the last 150 years.’ Modern Language Review 'This is a book to which I am sure that I will return to repeatedly. I have read it cover to cover twice now, both times enjoying it differently and finding more to marvel at... Peter Dayan is clearly an author who cares deeply about words, both for what they mean and for how they sound and read.' Music and Letters
