Literary music

Description:

"The book considers a wide range of literary and theoretical texts, including those of Blanchot and Bakhtin, Kazuo Ishiguro, Vikram Seth, David Malouf and J.M. Coetzee. The musical forms discussed range from opera to the string quartet, together with individual works by Elgar, Strauss and Michael Berkeley. As such, Literary Music offers an informed interdisciplinary approach to the study of literature and music that participates in the lively theoretical debate on the status of meaning in music."--Jacket.

subjects: Fiction,  History and criticism,  Music and literature,  Music in literature,  Fiction, history and criticism, 20th century,  Musique dans la littérature,  Musique et littérature,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  Literary

Times: 20th century