Unexpected chords : musico-poetic intermediality in Amy Lowell's poetry and poetics / Regina Schober.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schober, Regina.

Series:

American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 200.

American studies - a monograph series ; volume 200

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925--Criticism and interpretation.

Lowell, Amy.

Music and literature.

Intermediality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

HauptbeschreibungOne of the central figures of the Imagist movement, American poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925) experimented with poetic language and form by turning to the musical medium. This book examines the various ways in which the concept of music relates to and shapes Lowell's poetical and critical work. In Lowell's poems, music functions not only as sonic and rhythmic material or structural model, but also as a theme, reflecting cultural and aesthetic debates of an emerging modernity, such as gender, effects of urbanization, the First World War, primitivism, and cultural validity

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 1 Musico-Poetic Intermediality; 1.1 Terminology, Theories, and State of Research; 1.2 Intermedial Approaches to Amy Lowell's Poetry; 1.2.1 Imagine Media! (Inter)Medial Conceptualization; 1.2.2 Music Into Text: Intermedial Translation; 1.2.3 Dissolving Media: Modal Intersections; 1.3 Intermedial Perspectives: Amy Lowell Revisited; 2 Music Abstracted: A Romantic Ideal of Music in ""A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass""; 2.1 Harmony and the Ideal of Unity; 2.2 Beating Eternity: Time and Metaphysics; 2.3 Lowell's Songbirds: Nature as Creative Inspiration

3 The Silence Almost is a Sound: Sonic Representation from Synesthesia to Noise3.1 Synestesia or Intersensoriality?; 3.2 How Still it is! The Absence of Sound; 3.3 The Restlessness of an Incongruous Century: Silencing the Noises of Modernity; 3.4 Nocturnal Silence; 4 The Music of Imagism; 4.1 Impressionism, Haiku, and the Superimposition of Images; 4.2 A Constant Modulation of Values: Free Verse and Musical Rhythm; Example 1: Claude Debussy, "Poissons d'Or," b. 1-6; Example 2: Debussy, "Poissons d'Or," b.30-1st beat of b. 31; 4.3 The Image of (Musical) Impressionism

5 Polyphonic Prose and the Allegory of War5.1 Intrusion and Confusion: War Pictures; 5.2 The Complexities of Human Contact: Can Grande's Castle; 5.2.1 Identity and Synthesis; 5.2.2 Time and Space; 5.2.3 Chaos and Structure; 6 Translating Music, Translating Culture: Lowell's Grotesque (and) Primitivism; 6.1 Amy Lowell and the Grotesque; 6.2 From Eccentricity to Melancholy: Pierrot Lunaire turns Gothic; Example 3: Igor Stravinsky, Three Pieces no. 2, "Excentrique," b. 13-14; Example 4: Stravinsky, "Excentrique," b. 31-33; Example 5: Stravinsky, "Excentrique," opening, b. 1-3

Example 6: Stravinsky, "Excentrique," b. 4-56.3 After Hearing a Waltz by Bartók; Example 7: Béla Bartók, "Valse," opening, b. 1-7; Example 8: Bartók, "Valse," b. 27-28; Example 9: Bartók, "Valse," b. 83-86; Example 10: Bartók, "Valse," b. 45-64; Example 11: Bartók, "Valse," b. 128-150; Example 12: Bartók, "Valse," b. 37-43; 6.4 Amy Lowell's Peasant Dance: Translating Stravinsky's Primitivism; Example 13: Stravinsky, Three Pieces no. 1, "Danse," b. 1-10; Example 14: Stravinsky, "Danse," violin and cello opening motif, b .1; 6.5 Intermedial Translation as Cultural Translation

7 Music as a Culturar Signifier7.1 The Value of Music: Negotiating Cultural Validity; 7.2 Music, Gender, and Sexual Desire; Conclusion; Bibliography; Archival Documents; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 28, 2014).

ISBN:

9783825373290

3825373290

OCLC:

782879989