Song in the Novel investigates the variety of types of songs present in novels, from French romances, ballads, folk songs, opera, and opéra-comique, to café-concert music, blues and jazz, and more recent popular music. Throughout, literary scholars, musicologists, and cultural historians analyse novels written in a range of languages, including English, French, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. Using a range of interdisciplinary and comparative material, Song in the Novel explores the way that songs can be present in novels, from the inclusion of musical scores to broader practices of citation and allusion. It interrogates the function of song in the novel, considering its importance for plot, character, and setting. Finally, it addresses the reader's involvement in these songs - whether through immediate recognition or further research - with the result that they may participate in what Lawrence Kramer describes as a 'song pact' with the author, akin to the intimate connections between characters enabled through song in the novel.
| ISBN: | 9780197267745 |
| Publication date: | 11th July 2024 |
| Author: | Jennifer Rushworth, Hannah Scott, B W Ife |
| Publisher: | British Academy an imprint of OUP/British Academy |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Proceedings of the British Academy |
| Genres: |
Art music, orchestral and formal music Theory of music and musicology |
Song in the Novel investigates the variety of types of songs present in novels, from French romances, ballads, folk songs, opera, and opéra-comique, to café-concert music, blues and jazz, and more recent popular music. Throughout, literary scholars, musicologists, and cultural historians analyse novels written in a range of languages, including English, French, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. Using a range of interdisciplinary and comparative material, Song in the Novel explores the way that songs can be present in novels, from the inclusion of musical scores to broader practices of citation and allusion. It interrogates the function of song in the novel, considering its importance for plot, character, and setting. Finally, it addresses the reader's involvement in these songs - whether through immediate recognition or further research - with the result that they may participate in what Lawrence Kramer describes as a 'song pact' with the author, akin to the intimate connections between characters enabled through song in the novel.
Song in the Novel features in the following genres: Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology
Song in the Novel is available in Hardback
Song in the Novel was written by Jennifer Rushworth, Hannah Scott, B W Ife and published by British Academy an imprint of OUP/British Academy
Song in the Novel has 256 pages
Yes it is part of Proceedings of the British Academy series
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