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1 online resource (272) |
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Cover13; -- Contents -- A Note on Translations and Abbreviations -- Hors d8217;oeuvre I -- Introduction: The Subject of Music and Madness -- 1. Hearing Voices -- Sirens at the Palais Royal -- Between the Infinite and the Infinitesimal -- Excursus: The Howl of Marsys -- Socratic Energy -- 2. Unequal Song -- Music and the Irrational -- Mimesis: Cratylus and the Origin of Language -- Identity and Difference -- Crisis at the Cafe De La Regence -- Satire, Inequality, anf the Individual -- 3. Resounding Sense -- A Break in the Grand Confinement -- The Emergence of the Mad Musician -- Empfindsamkeit -- Hegal's Reading of Le Neveu -- Sentiment De L'Existence -- 4. The Most Violent of the Arts -- The Musical Sublime in Longinus and Burke -- Kant's Abdication -- Community and Herder's Conception of Music -- Wackenroder's Berglinger Novella -- 5. With Arts Unknown Before: Kleist and the Power of Music -- Music, Reflection, and Immediacy in Kleist's Letters -- Die Heilige Cacilie Oder Die Gewalt Der Musik -- Self-Representation -- 6. Before and After Language: Hoffmann -- The Designative and Disclosive Functions of Language: Kreisleriana -- The Uses of Form -- Emptying Out Into Form: Julia Mark and the "Berganza" Dialouge -- Euphony and Discord: "Ritter Gluck" -- Postscriptum: "Rat Krespel" -- Praescriptum: Kater Murr -- Hors d8217;oeuvre II -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
In the romantic tradition, music is consistently associated with madness, either as cause or cure. Writers as diverse as Kleist, Hoffmann, and Nietzsche articulated this theme, which in fact reaches back to classical antiquity and continues to resonate in the modern imagination. What John Hamilton investigates in this study is the way literary, philosophical, and psychological treatments of music and madness challenge the limits of representation and thereby create a crisis of language. Special focus is given to the decidedly autobiographical impulse of the late eighteenth and early ni |
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Music and language.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics -- History
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Music -- Psychological aspects -- History
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Music and language.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- Psychological aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1283008831 |
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9781283008839 |
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