Proust, Music, and Meaning

Theories and Practices of Listening in the Recherche
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-47640-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 215 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3947 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Acquisto, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Listening for Meaning.- 2. Swann Set to Music.- 3. A Subject Formed in Listening: Love, Music, and Truth in the Albertine Story.- 4. Saying, Doing, Listening.- 5. Fiction, Memory, and Music.- Bibliography.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Acquisto is Professor of French at the University of Vermont, USA. His books include French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music (2006), Crusoes and Other Castaways in Modern French Literature (2012), The Fall out of Redemption (2015), and the edited volume Thinking Poetry (2013).