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Difficult Rhythm: Music and the Word in E.M. Forster
Michelle Fillion
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Description for Difficult Rhythm: Music and the Word in E.M. Forster
Paperback. Examines E. M. Forster's irrepressible interest in music, providing plentiful examples of how the eminent British author's fiction resonates with music. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 black and white photographs, 18 musical examples, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; AV; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
Difficult Rhythm examines E. M. Forster's irrepressible interest in music, providing plentiful examples of how the eminent British author's fiction resonates with music. Musicologist Michelle Fillion analyzes his critical writings, short stories, and novels, including A Room with a View, which alludes to Beethoven, Wagner, and Schumann, and Howards End, which explicitly alerts readers how fiction can adopt musical forms and ideas. This volume also includes, for the first time in print, Forster's notes on Beethoven's piano sonatas. Documenting his knowledge of music, his musical favorites and friends, and his attitudes toward various composers, performances, and competing musical theories, this engaging book traces the musical influences of luminaries such as Wagner, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Britten on Forster's life and work.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252079023
SKU
V9780252079023
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99-50
About Michelle Fillion
Michelle Fillion is an associate professor of musicology at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and the editor of Early Viennese Chamber Music with Obbligato Keyboard.
Reviews for Difficult Rhythm: Music and the Word in E.M. Forster
A significant reassessment of one of the twentieth century's finest writers. By paying nuanced attention to the comprehensive role of music in Forster's novels and aesthetics, Fillion finds a new keynote to Forster's literary art. To read his novels without this perspective in play is to miss much.
Scott G. Burnham, author of Beethoven Hero These works continue testifying to the quality of Fillion's contribution to Forster scholarship and interdisciplinary research.
Polish Journal of English Studies A very comprehensive and perceptive assessment of the role of music in E. M. Forster's life and work.
Music and Letters Difficult Rhythm is a tasty read, indeed. Fillion impressively and gracefully shows how Forster's engagement and fascination with music in his works articulates his evolving social, political, and ideological concerns.
Todd Avery, author of Radio Modernism: Literature, Ethics, and the BBC, 1922-1938 Astute and well informed. . . . Fillion's extremely fine study is surely one that scholars will draw on with admiration and pleasure.
Review of English Studies Briskly written and highly readable.
Times Literary Supplement
Scott G. Burnham, author of Beethoven Hero These works continue testifying to the quality of Fillion's contribution to Forster scholarship and interdisciplinary research.
Polish Journal of English Studies A very comprehensive and perceptive assessment of the role of music in E. M. Forster's life and work.
Music and Letters Difficult Rhythm is a tasty read, indeed. Fillion impressively and gracefully shows how Forster's engagement and fascination with music in his works articulates his evolving social, political, and ideological concerns.
Todd Avery, author of Radio Modernism: Literature, Ethics, and the BBC, 1922-1938 Astute and well informed. . . . Fillion's extremely fine study is surely one that scholars will draw on with admiration and pleasure.
Review of English Studies Briskly written and highly readable.
Times Literary Supplement