Musical Stimulacra

Description:

"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)"--

subjects: American literature,  American fiction,  History and criticism,  Music and literature,  History,  Music in literature,  MUSIC / History & Criticism,  LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General