Description |
1 online resource (ix, 171 pages) |
Contents |
On not writing opera -- Killing the pianist in the house -- Death in effigy -- Fugues, flights and free association -- What it really means to be English -- Only suggest |
Summary |
"In this unique study Emma Sutton discusses all of Woolf's novels as well as selected essays and short fiction, offering detailed commentaries on Woolf's numerous allusions to classical repertoire and to composers including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner. Sutton explores Woolf's interest in the contested relationship between politics and music, placing her work in a matrix of ideas about music and national identity, class, anti-Semitism, pacifism, sexuality and gender. The study also considers the formal influence of music -- from fugue to Romantic opera -- on Woolf's prose and narrative techniques. The analysis of music's role in Woolf's aesthetics and fiction is contextualized in accounts of her musical education, activities as a listener, and friendships with musicians; and the study outlines the relationship between her 'musicalized' work and that of contemporaries including Joyce, Lawrence, Forster, Mansfield and Eliot."-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-165) and index |
Notes |
Emma Sutton is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews, Scotland |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Knowledge -- Music
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Aesthetics
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SUBJECT |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast |
Subject |
Music in literature.
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Aesthetics in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
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Aesthetics
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Aesthetics in literature
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Music
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Music in literature
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Music
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780748637881 |
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0748637885 |
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9780748684762 |
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074868476X |
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1306117836 |
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9781306117838 |
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9780748695270 |
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0748695273 |
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