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Borrowed Forms: The Music and Ethics of Transnational Fiction
Kathryn Lachman
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Description for Borrowed Forms: The Music and Ethics of Transnational Fiction
Hardcover. A pioneering, interdisciplinary study of how transnational novelists and critics use music as a critical device to structure narrative and to model ethical relations. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: AV; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 462.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
Borrowed Forms examines the use of music by contemporary novelists and critics from across the Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone worlds. Through readings of Nancy Huston, Maryse Condé, J. M. Coetzee, Assia Djebar, Julio Cortázar, and other late twentieth-century novelists, the book shows how writers deploy musical strategies to expand the possibilities of the novel in response to the demands of transnational citizenship. The book transcends disciplinary boundaries, to reveal the entanglement of musical and narrative forms in ethical, historical, and ... Read more
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
Borrowed Forms examines the use of music by contemporary novelists and critics from across the Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone worlds. Through readings of Nancy Huston, Maryse Condé, J. M. Coetzee, Assia Djebar, Julio Cortázar, and other late twentieth-century novelists, the book shows how writers deploy musical strategies to expand the possibilities of the novel in response to the demands of transnational citizenship. The book transcends disciplinary boundaries, to reveal the entanglement of musical and narrative forms in ethical, historical, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781380307
SKU
9781781380307
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About Kathryn Lachman
Kathryn Lachman is Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literatures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Co-chair of the Five College Faculty Seminar. Born in South Africa, violinist trained at the Yale School of Music and Paris Conservatory, Assistant Concertmaster of the Yale Symphony Orchestra, recipient of the Henry Hart Rice Fellowship for research in Beirut Lebanon in 1998, ... Read more
Reviews for Borrowed Forms: The Music and Ethics of Transnational Fiction
Reviews'It is a bold, broad, and innovative study. It will be of interest to all those who work with these complicated, engaging, and fascinating encounters between the literary and the musical.' Claire Launchbury, French Studies 'Kathryn Lachman's book is not simply about the replication of musical form in literature but is a wide-ranging study of how writers and thinkers have ... Read more