Musical Biographies: The Music of Memory in Post-1945 German Literature

ISBN-13: 9783110457957 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 181 str.

Michal Ben-Horin

Opis

Musical Biographies examines that which bypasses verbal signification and is therefore absent from collective memory. More specifically, it looks at German and Austrian writers, who turned to music in order to develop appropriate modes to respond to the catastrophe of World War II. The book contributes to a new understanding of this past and demonstrates the complexities inherent in any attempt to understand traumatic experience.

Recenzje

"[...] Ben-Horin deserves credit for attempting a rare and sustained exploration of how musical modes (opposed to exclusively visual or literary "modes") might figure into representations of the German past. One can only hope that this book prompts further efforts within German studies and its allied fields at expanding and embracing music as a serious and culturally vital object of literary inquiry."
Simon Trevor Walsh in: Biography vol. 41, no. 1, Winter 2018: 146-152

"[...] Ben-Horin's study is a welcome contribution to the intermedial exploration of cultural memory and music. [...] Ben-Horin's engaging study encourages us to continue to reflect on these possibilities and limitations that invariably shape the intriguing interaction between word and music."
Rolf J. Goebel in: Monatshefte, Vol. 109, No. 3, 2017, pp. 503-505

O autorze

Michal Ben-Horin, Bar Ilan University , Ramat Gan, Israel and Beit Berl Academic College, Kfar Saba, Israel.