Proust, Music, and Meaning [electronic resource] : Theories and Practices of Listening in the Recherche / by Joseph Acquisto.

Unlimited

Authorized users

Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks

Proust, Music, and Meaning [electronic resource] : Theories and Practices of Listening in the Recherche / by Joseph Acquisto.

9783319476414
3319476416
9783319476407
3319476408
9783319476414

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

English

1 online resource (VII, 215 pages) : online resource.

10.1007/978-3-319-47641-4. doi

PN770-PN779

809.04

This book is about reading Proust's novel via philosophical and musicological approaches to "modern" listening. It articulates how insights into the way we listen to and understand classical music inform the creation of literary meaning. It asks: are we to take at face value the ideas about art that the novel contains, or are those part of the fiction? Is there a difference between what the novel says and what it does, and how can music provide a key to answering that question? According to this study, Proust asks us to temporalize our interpretation by recognizing the distance between initial and final experiences of the novel, and by being open to the ways in which it challenges attempts at interpretive closure. Proust's novel responds to the kind of attentive and eternally changing perspectives that can be generated from music and our attempts to make sense of it.

Access limited to authorized users.

text file
PDF

Palgrave studies in modern European literature.

Print version: 9783319476407

Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources