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Reading Time in Music : Temporally Vexed by Sarah Cash (2023, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN-101666903493

ISBN-139781666903492

eBay Product ID (ePID)17059031373

Product Key Features

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameReading Time in Music : Temporally Vexed

Publication Year2023

SubjectFeminism & Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, Semiotics & Theory

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science

AuthorSarah Cash

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight16.4 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2023-002624

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsThis ambitious and original monograph offers a valuable contribution to the current reappraisal of literary periodization in the "long nineteenth century" through its focus on the relationship between gender and music across the genres of poetry and fiction. Exploring "non-linear music," Sarah Cash participates in the scholarly movement to connect representations of gender with the subversion of Enlightenment binaries in nineteenth-century literature. In remarkably lucid prose, Cash informs this literary study with a coherent balance of theoretical models in musicology, literature, gender studies, and philosophy., "This ambitious and original monograph offers a valuable contribution to the current reappraisal of literary periodization in the "long nineteenth century" through its focus on the relationship between gender and music across the genres of poetry and fiction. Exploring "non-linear music," Sarah Cash participates in the scholarly movement to connect representations of gender with the subversion of Enlightenment binaries in nineteenth-century literature. In remarkably lucid prose, Cash informs this literary study with a coherent balance of theoretical models in musicology, literature, gender studies, and philosophy." --Kathryn Freeman, University of Miami "Examining the destabilizing collision in 19th-century fiction of the stability (or fixity) of realism with "the fluidity of the unknown" in those disruptive narrative spaces where music intersects with temporality, Cash unfolds exciting new vistas on intellectual and aesthetic innovations of writers who glimpsed in music's inherent resistance to empirical strictures a metaphor for challenging the limitations of the conventional narrative structures of mimetic realism--a means of unbinding narrative from its accumulated mimetic conventions. This is good stuff--important stuff, and well worth a careful read." --Stephen Behrendt, University of Nebraska, Examining the destabilizing collision in 19th-century fiction of the stability (or fixity) of realism with "the fluidity of the unknown" in those disruptive narrative spaces where music intersects with temporality, Cash unfolds exciting new vistas on intellectual and aesthetic innovations of writers who glimpsed in music's inherent resistance to empirical strictures a metaphor for challenging the limitations of the conventional narrative structures of mimetic realism--a means of unbinding narrative from its accumulated mimetic conventions. This is good stuff--important stuff, and well worth a careful read.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal820.9008

Table Of ContentContents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Out of Time: Music as Temporal Excess in Thomas De Quincey's "Dream Fugue." Chapter 2: Lamenting Ruin: Irish Musical Mourning in Sydney Owenson's Wild Irish Girl. Chapter 3: Broken Boundaries: Disruptive Sound Spaces in William Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Chapter 4: A Singing Call: Death and Music Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend. Chapter 5: Distant Music: Temporal Disruption in James Joyce's Dubliners Conclusion: Coda: Re-imaging Ourselves in Time References Index

SynopsisThis book examines the intersection of music and temporality in British literature of the long nineteenth century, arguing the temporal multiplicity of music as the most dynamic way to subvert mimetic bias. Temporally vexed sound spaces rupture the narrative, transgressing the hegemonic structures to which it is subject., In this book, Sarah Cash examines the intersection of music and temporality in British literature of the long nineteenth century. The sound spaces created at these intersections function as antimimetic resistance to hegemonic structures. Through its temporal multiplicity, music resonates in excess of linear time, revealing a metaphoric soundedness in the text that subverts reader expectation and reveals how seemingly realist nineteenth-century novels transgress the limitations of their classic narratological structures. In even the most apparently "realist" texts, the most extravagant, excessive, and hyperbolic elements exceed the bounds of what we often consider real, disrupting mimetic bias. Cash argues that music offers the most dynamic way to expose this vexed temporality in the text. Through scholarly intervention a disruption of historic classifications show that Victorians are heirs of Romanticism's musical ideals, including the power of music to penetrate and transform space and time and the permanence of sound as it reverberates beyond human perception. Scholars of nineteenth-century literature, temporality, and gender studies will find this book of particular interest.

LC Classification NumberPR468.M857