UID:
almahu_9949386638702882
Format:
1 online resource (xxvi, 161 pages)
ISBN:
1000327809
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9780367688189
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0367688182
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9781000327762
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1000327760
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9781000327786
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1000327787
,
9781000327809
Series Statement:
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 130
Content:
The title coinage of this book, stimulacra, refers to the fundamental capacity of literary narrative to stimulate our minds and senses by simulating things through words. Musical stimulacra are passages of fiction that readers are empowered to transpose into mental simulations of music. The book theorizes how fiction can generate musical experience, explains what constitutes that experience, and explores the musical dimensions of three American novels: William T. Vollmann's Europe Central (2005), William H. Gass's Middle C (2013), and Richard Powers's Orfeo (2014). Musical Stimulacra approaches fiction's music from a readerly perspective. Instead of looking at how novels forever fail to compensate for music's physical, structural, and affective properties, the book concentrates on what literary narrative can do musically. Negotiating common grounds for cognitive audionarratology and intermediality studies, Musical Stimulacra builds its case on the assumption that, among other things, fiction urges us to listen--to musical words and worlds.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780367858629
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0367858622
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367688189
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