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Literary Music: Writing Music in Contemporary Fiction

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Focusing on recent fictional and theoretical texts, Literary Music proposes literature, narrative fiction in particular, as a singular form of musical performance, in which ideas about music are constituted and explored. Stephen Benson considers works by Blanchot, Kazuo Ishiguro, Vikram Seth, and J. M. Coetzee, together with music by Elgar and Strauss. As such, Literary Music participates in the lively theoretical debate on the status of meaning in music.

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Literary Music: Writing Music in Contemporary Fiction 2016, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9781138277991

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Literary Music: Writing Music in Contemporary Fiction 2006, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780754635536

Hardcover