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.
| ISBN: | 9783319476407 |
| Publication date: | 10th March 2017 |
| Author: | Joseph Acquisto |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer International Publishing |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 215 pages |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literature: history and criticism Fiction |
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.
Proust, Music, and Meaning features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, Fiction
Proust, Music, and Meaning is available in Hardback
Proust, Music, and Meaning was written by Joseph Acquisto and published by Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer International Publishing
Proust, Music, and Meaning has 215 pages
Yes it is part of Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature series
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