Music in the Words: Musical Form and Counterpoint in the Twentieth-Century Novel - Hardcover

Shockley, Alan

 
9780754661993: Music in the Words: Musical Form and Counterpoint in the Twentieth-Century Novel

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Can a novel follow the form of a symphony and still succeed as a novel? Can musical counterpoint be mimicked by words on a page? Alan Shockley begins looking for answers by examining music's appeal for novelists and exploring two brief works, a prose fugue by Douglas Hofstadter, and a short story by Anthony Burgess modeled after a Mozart symphony. Analyses of three large, emblematic attempts at musical writing follow along with discussions on two recent brief novels. From the perspective of a composer, Shockley offers the reader fresh tools for approaching these dense and often daunting texts.

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ISBN 10:  1138259802 ISBN 13:  9781138259805
Verlag: Routledge, 2016
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