Virginia Woolf

Music, Sound, Language

AvElicia Clements

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Arguing that sound is integral to Virginia Woolf's understanding of literature, Elicia Clements highlights how the sonorous enables Woolf to examine issues of meaning in language and art, elaborate a politics of listening, illuminate rhythmic and performative elements in her fiction, and explore how music itself provides a potential structural model that facilitates the innovation of her method in The Waves. Woolf's investigation of the exchange between literature and music is thoroughly intermedial: her novels disclose the crevices, convergences, and conflicts that arise when one traverses the intersectionality of these two art forms, revealing, in the process, Woolf's robust materialist feminism. This book focuses, therefore, on the conceptual, aesthetic, and political implications of the musico-literary pairing. Correspondingly, Clements uses a methodology that employs theoretical tools from the disciplines of both literary criticism and musicology, as well as several burgeoning and newly established fields including sound, listening, and performance studies. Ultimately, Clements argues that a wide-ranging combination of these two disciplines produces new ways to study not only literary and musical artifacts but also the methods we employ to analyze them.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-04-26
Mått:159 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781487504267

Utforska kategorier

Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Offentlig förvaltning inom Samhälle och politik
Grundlagar, konstitution inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

Elicia Clements is a cross-appointed, associate professor in the Departments of Humanities and English at York University.

Recensioner i media

"Clements’s book explores Woolf’s sustained attention to the production and reception of sound, gathering together arguments about sonic events, art music, and language in Woolf’s work. Through her bold scope, astute close readings, and careful theoretical expositions, she provides a sophisticated account of the vital importance of sound production and reception to Woolf’s ethics and experimentation."- Emma Sutton (Woolf Studies Annual) "Elicia Clements in Virginia Woolf, Music, Sound and Language (2019) takes a deep dive into these relationships and argues that the concepts of sound and music enabled Woolf to develop a new understanding of her own writing and literature. This is new and exciting."- Patricia Laurence, City College, City University of New York (Virginia Woolf Miscellany)

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Abbreviations IntroductionI. Woolf's Musical EarII. Interdisciplinary MethodsIII. "Hoity te, hoity te, hoity te …": Tripartite Woolf Part 1 An Emerging Earcon: Woolf's Singers 1. Finding a Voice I. Resonant Beginnings: The Voyage OutII. Sonic Networks in Jacob's RoomIII. Urban and Rural Interrelations in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse 2. The Earcon Reproduces I. "And what is a cry?": The Waves II. Integrating the Earcon in The YearsIII. Aural Multiplicity in Between the Acts Part 2 Profound Listening and Acousmatics 3. Initial Apperceptions I. Materialized Sonics and Listening Subjects in The Voyage OutII. Involuntary, Yet Profound, Listening in Night and DayIII. International Acousmatics: War and Its Veterans in Jacob's Room and Mrs. Dalloway 4. Bodies and Voices I. To the Lighthouse and Family AcousmaticsII. The Gender of Listening in The WavesIII. "Hush!... Somebody's listening": The Years IV. Heterogeneous Reattachments in Between the Acts Part 3 Music as Performance in Woolf's Fiction 5. Performing Women I. Women at the Piano in the First Three NovelsII. Performing Personal History in The YearsIII. Historical Reenactments: Between the Acts 6. The Performativity of Language: The Waves Musicalized I. Word Music: "(The rhythm is the main thing in writing)" II. The Case of Ludwig van BeethovenIII. Transforming Beethoven's Opus 130 and 133 into WordsCoda: A Meditation on Rhythm NotesWorks CitedIndex