Ada Steinberg

Word and Music in the Novels of Andrey Bely

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dr Steinberg discusses Andrey Bely's novels by analysing Wagner's musical techniques and literary devices that Bely employs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9780521115667
• ISBN-10: 0521115663
• Artikelnr.: 26204111

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
A note on transliteration
Part I. On the Relationship Between Music and Poetry: 1. Music and poetry: statement of the problem
2. The significance of music for the romantics and symbolists: evaluation of the 'word'
3. The influence of Wagner on the symbolists: a new evaluation of the 'word'
4. Bely, Mallarmé and Verlaine and their approach to music
5. Bely and the music of his time
Part II. Bely's Musical Devices: 6. Bely's verbal orchestration
7. Vowel orchestration
8. Consonantal orchestration
9. the concept of dissonance in music: Prokofiev and Bely
10. Bely's dissonances: their 'preparation' and 'resolution'
11. On 'polyphony'
12. Bely's synaesthesia: Baudelaire's 'Corressondances' as interpreted by Bely
13. Rimbaud's sonnet 'Voyelles' and his influence on Bely: The importance of Gogol's 'Craftsmanship'
14. Bely's original solution to the problem of synaesthesia
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.