The Musical Novel: Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction (European Studies in North American Literature and Culture) - Softcover

Petermann, Emily

 
9781640140271: The Musical Novel: Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction (European Studies in North American Literature and Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1640140271 ISBN 13: 9781640140271
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2018

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What is a "musical novel"? This book defines the genre as musical not primarily in terms of its content, but in its form. The musical novel crosses medial boundaries, aspiring to techniques, structures, and impressions similar to those of music. It takes music as a model for its own construction, borrowing techniques and forms that range from immediately perceptible, essential aspects of music (rhythm, timbre, the simultaneity of multiple voices) to microstructural (jazz riffs, call and response, leitmotifs) and macrostructural elements (themes and variations, symphonies, albums). The musical novel also evokes the performance context by imitating elements of spontaneity that characterize improvised jazz or audience interaction. The Musical Novel builds upon theories of intermediality and semiotics to analyze the musical structures, forms, and techniques in two groups of musical novels, which serve as case studies. The first group imitates an entire musical genre and consists of jazz novels by Toni Morrison, Albert Murray, Xam Wilson Cartier, Stanley Crouch, Jack Fuller, Michael Ondaatje, and Christian Gailly. The second group of novels, by Richard Powers, Gabriel Josipovici, Rachel Cusk, Nancy Huston, and Thomas Bernhard, imitates a single piece of music, J. S. Bach's Goldberg Variations. Emily Petermann is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Konstanz.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1640140271
ISBN 13 
9781640140271
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252
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