Offering a new perspective on two major authors, Minear explores Shakespeare's and Milton's fascination with the idea of language infiltrated by music and reproducing not so much the formal or sonic properties of music as its effects on minds and memories. She reveals that many …
"Africa In Stereo examines the role that African American music has played in the pan-Africanist imagination since the end of the nineteenth century. Throughout, Jaji marshals a wide array of critical, archival, literary, visual, and sonic sources to craft an argument centered o…
Music was a subject of considerable debate during the Renaissance. The notion that music could be interpreted in a meaningful way clashed regularly with evidence that music was in fact profoundly promiscuous in its application and effects. Subsequently, much writing in the perio…
The author takes on the important topic of music as a scripted event in Shakespeare's plays. To the philosophical and practical aspects of early modern music he adds a politics of music that gets to the heart of religious controversy in the period between Catholic and Protestant…
The author takes on the important topic of music as a scripted event in Shakespeare's plays. To the philosophical and practical aspects of early modern music he adds a politics of music that gets to the heart of religious controversy in the period between Catholic and Protestant…
Samuel Beckett produced some of the most powerful writing - some of the funniest but most devastating - of the twentieth century. He described his plays, prose and poetry as 'an unnecessary stain on the silence', but the extraordinary combination of concision and richness in his…
A study of the role and representation of music in contemporary British fiction which also provides a theoretical account of the historical relationship between the two media.
This study explores the formative influence of classical music on Woolf's writing, illustrating the importance of music to Woolf's domestic, social and creative lives.
Beckett and musicality
Discussion concerning the'musicality'of Samuel Beckett's writing now constitutes a familiar critical trope in Beckett Studies, one that continues to be informed by the still-emerging evidence of Beckett's engagement with music throughout his personal and literary life, and by th…
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…
"This book reads representations of Western music in literary texts to reveal the ways in which artifacts of imperial culture function within contemporary world literature. Bushnell argues that Western music's conventions for performance, composition, and listening, established …
"Focusing on Anglo-American novels of the past two decades, Write in Tune explores the dynamic intersection between popular music and fiction."