Virginia Woolf and Classical Music: Politics, Aesthetics, Form

ISBN-13: 9780748637874 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 184 str.

Emma Sutton

Opis

In 1940, Virginia Woolf confessed: "I think of all my books as music before I write them." In this work, Emma Sutton compares Woolf's entire novelistic output, as well as several of her essays and short fiction, to music by classical composers, such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Wagner, as well as Woolf's own musical friends: Ethel Smyth, Nadia Boulanger, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Bruno Walter. Sutton reads Woolf's attitudes toward nationalism, class, anti-Semitism, and gender through these juxtapositions and contextualizes her engagement with music within the aesthetic experiments of the Bloomsbury group and Woolf's modernist contemporaries.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations and Editions Used in the Text; Introduction; 1. On Not Writing Opera; 2. Killing the Pianist in the House; 3. Death in Effigy; 4. Fugues, Flights & Free Association; 5. What it Really Means to be English; 6. Only Suggest; Bibliography; Index.