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Author Sutton, Emma, author.

Title Virginia Woolf and classical music : politics, aesthetics, form / Emma Sutton
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
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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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Subject Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Knowledge -- Music
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Aesthetics
SUBJECT Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast
Subject Music in literature.
Aesthetics in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
Aesthetics
Aesthetics in literature
Music
Music in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Music
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780748637881
0748637885
9780748684762
074868476X
1306117836
9781306117838
9780748695270
0748695273