Brad Bucknell

Literary Modernism and Musical Aesthetics

Pater, Pound, Joyce and Stein

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the theory and the practice of music, in relation to modernist writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9780521155083
• ISBN-10: 0521155088
• Artikelnr.: 31194123

Autorenporträt

Brad Bucknell is Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta He has been a studio musician, a songwriter, a singer, and a band leader - all before gaining a PhD in English at the University of Toronto. He has published on the figure of Salome, on Pater, on African American literary theory, and on T.S. Eliot.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Preliminaries: of music and modernism
2. Walter Pater: music and the aesthetic resistance to history
3. The musical aesthetic of Ezra Pound: its sorts and conditions from imagism and vorticism to the Cantos
4. 'Sirens' and problem of literary and musical meaning
5. Gertrude Stein and her saints
6. Endings
Index.