Moonlighting : Beethoven and literary modernism / Nathan Waddell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waddell, Nathan, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827--Influence.

Beethoven, Ludwig van.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Modernism (Literature).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

Edition:

New product edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 2019

Summary:

How and why did the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) matter to experimental writers in the early twentieth century? Previous answers to this question have tended to focus on structural analogies between musical works and literary texts, charting the many different ways in which poetry and prose resemble Beethoven's compositions. This text takes a different approach. It focuses on how early twentieth-century writers - chief among them E.M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, Wyndham Lewis, Dorothy Richardson, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf - profited from the representational conventions associated in the nineteenth century and beyond with Beethovenian culture.

Contents:

Moonlighting: Beethoven and Literary Modernism List of Abbreviations Introduction: Beethoven and Literary Modernism 1: The Idea of the Heroic 2: Eloquent Citations 3: The Confines of Habit 4: Articulate Masks 5: The Politics of Value Conclusion: Media, Convention, and the Beethovenian Monument

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 10, 2019).

ISBN:

0-19-254865-4

0-19-185833-1

0-19-254864-6