1st Edition
The Acoustic Self in English Modernism and Beyond Writing Musically
By Zoltan Varga
Copyright 2022
146 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
146 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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... Read more
Introduction: We Hear Only Ourselves
1. Let’s Get Lost
2. Of Fugue and Other Demons
3. Does Beethoven Kill? Absolute Music and the Self
4. Wagner, Je T’aime … Moi Non Plus
5. The Dispersion of the Acoustic Self
Epilogue
Biography
Zoltan Varga is Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway.
