G. Smyth

Gebundenes Buch

Music in Contemporary British Fiction

Listening to the Novel

Beschreibung

Alongside readings of modern novels (including work by David Mitchell, Zadie Smith, Jackie Kay and Andrew O'Hagan), Gerry Smyth offers an extended theoretical analysis of the relationship between music and fiction, as well as a critical overview of the role played by music in the canon of British fiction since the eighteenth century.

Autor

GERRY SMYTH is Reader in Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He has published widely on the literature and music of Britain and Ireland. His previous books include The Novel and the Nation (1997), Space and the Cultural Imagination (2001) and Noisy Island: A Short History of Irish Popular Music (2005).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-57328-4
• 2008 edition
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 441g
• ISBN-13: 9780230573284
• ISBN-10: 0230573282
• Artikelnr.: 23801141

Rezensionen

'The uses of music within fiction are legion, and Gerry Smyth provides a fascinating overview of ways in which writers invoke the musical Examples... are drawn from the 18th century onwards and include some fascinating insights: Smyth's reading of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure as a Wagnerian novel - structured through leitmotifs - is particularly striking.'

- Andrew Blake, Times Higher Education