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Song in the Novel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rushworth, Jennifer.
- Series:
- Proceedings of the British Academy Series:Themed Volumes of Essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Proceedings of the British Academy Series:Themed Volumes of Essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences ; v.265
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : British Academy, 2024.
- Summary:
- In Song in the Novel, scholars of literature, music, and culture explore the presence of songs and singing in novels, focusing on English, French, Italian, Russian, and Spanish examples from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Music in literature
- The critical context
- Defining song
- Defining the novel
- Structure and contents
- Conclusion
- 1 'Elle se mit à chanter…': A Reflection on Songs in 18th-Century French Fiction
- Music in fiction
- Locating songs in novels
- Mixing genres
- How songs function
- Accompaniments
- New words sung to old tunes
- New tunes
- Circulation
- A coda
- 2 Integrating Song in the Novel: Lessons from the 18th Century
- Theories on music in the novel
- Music as music
- The motivation of music
- Action versus contemplation
- The dramatic scope of music
- The difference of enunciation
- 3 'A Taste for Music, or No'? Walter Scott's Novels and Music
- Introduction: Scott's musical abilities
- Songs and social contexts in Scott's day
- Anacreontic and other convivial songs
- Ambivalence in songs of social and historical critique
- Songs and tunes of action
- Tragedy: loss and death
- Musical elements in the construction of Scott's narrators
- 4 Singing in Instalments: Giuseppe Rovani's Cento anni (1856- 64)
- Set-piece narrative
- Polyphonic narrative
- Palaeographic narrative
- Operatic narrative
- 5 Carmen's Intertexts: Cervantes, Viardot, Mérimée, Bizet
- Song in the novela
- Song at the opera
- The fourth triangle
- The opening night
- 6 Songs in the Laundry: Musical Meaning in Zola's L'Assommoir
- The café-concert laundress
- Zola's laundresses
- 7 Re-Joycing in Song: Love, Death, and Nationhood in Ulysses
- 'Love and War'
- 'M'appari'
- 'The Croppy Boy'
- The ballad of 'Little Harry Hughes'
- Conclusion.
- 8 'Extraordinary how potent cheap music is': Memory, Nostalgia, and Affect in Gaito Gazdanov's An Evening with Claire
- 9 Songs of Triumph: Claude McKay, Sonic Subcultures, and the Opéra-Comique
- Song of the vagabond
- Opéra-comique
- 10 Singing the Dead Present: Reading Ali Smith's Winter in the Middle Ages
- Medieval: Ricardian modalities
- (Meta-)modern: hiemerical Smith
- Conclusion: song in Audible
- Afterword: The Song Pact - How the Novel Sings
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-893162-X
- 0-19-893163-8
- 0-19-893164-6
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