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This book is about reading Proust s novel via philosophical and musicological approaches to modern listening. It articulates how insights into the way we listen to and understand classical music inform the creation of literary meaning. It asks: are we to take at face value the ideas about art that t...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47641-4 |
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This book is about reading Proust s novel via philosophical and musicological approaches to modern listening. It articulates how insights into the way we listen to and understand classical music inform the creation of literary meaning. It asks: are we to take at face value the ideas about art that the novel contains, or are those part of the fiction? Is there a difference between what the novel says and what it does, and how can music provide a key to answering that question? According to this study, Proust asks us to temporalize our interpretation by recognizing the distance between initial |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(VII,191pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783319476414 |
| Index Number: | PN770 |
| CLC: | I565.074 |
| Contents: | 1. Listening for Meaning -- 2. Swann Set to Music -- 3. A Subject Formed in Listening: Love, Music, and Truth in the Albertine Story -- 4. Saying, Doing, Listening -- 5. Fiction, Memory, and Music -- Bibliography -- Index. |