Stephen Benson
Ashgate
Hardback
186
2006
Focusing on recent fictional and theoretical texts Literary Music proposes literature narrative fiction in particular as a singular form of musical performance in which ideas about music are constituted and explored. Stephen Benson considers works by Blanchot Kazuo Ishiguro Vikram Seth and J. M. Coetzee together with music by Elgar and Strauss. As such Literary Music participates in the lively theoretical debate on the status of meaning in music.
Ashgate
Hardback
186
2006
Focusing on recent fictional and theoretical texts Literary Music proposes literature narrative fiction in particular as a singular form of musical performance in which ideas about music are constituted and explored. Stephen Benson considers works by Blanchot Kazuo Ishiguro Vikram Seth and J. M. Coetzee together with music by Elgar and Strauss. As such Literary Music participates in the lively theoretical debate on the status of meaning in music.