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Virginia Woolf : music, sound, language

Clements, Elicia, 1970- author

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\"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.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Subject: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 Knowledge Music. / Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 Criticism and interpretation. / Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 Aesthetics. / Music and literature History 20th century. / Music in literature. / Sound in literature.
• ISBN: 9781487504267, 1487504268

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PR6045.O72 Z5783 2019	1	BOOK	GENERAL