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Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language
John Hamilton
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Description for Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language
Hardback. Considers the particular representations that link music and madness, investigating the underlying motives, preconceptions, and ideological premises that facilitate the association of these two experiences. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
In the romantic tradition, music is consistently associated with madness, either as cause or cure. Writers as diverse as Kleist, Hoffmann, and Nietzsche articulated this theme, which in fact reaches back to classical antiquity and continues to resonate in the modern imagination. What John Hamilton investigates in this study is the way literary, philosophical, and psychological treatments of music and madness challenge the limits of representation and thereby create a crisis of language. Special focus is given to the decidedly autobiographical impulse of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, where musical experience and mental disturbance disrupt the expression of ... Read more
In the romantic tradition, music is consistently associated with madness, either as cause or cure. Writers as diverse as Kleist, Hoffmann, and Nietzsche articulated this theme, which in fact reaches back to classical antiquity and continues to resonate in the modern imagination. What John Hamilton investigates in this study is the way literary, philosophical, and psychological treatments of music and madness challenge the limits of representation and thereby create a crisis of language. Special focus is given to the decidedly autobiographical impulse of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, where musical experience and mental disturbance disrupt the expression of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Series
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231142205
SKU
V9780231142205
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About John Hamilton
John T. Hamilton is professor of comparative literature and Germanic literature at Harvard University. The author of Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition (2003), he has also published extensively on German and French literature, aesthetics, and the afterlife of classical antiquity.
Reviews for Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language
As a study of a literary obsession, Hamilton's book will remain a key text for those interested in the genesis of the idea of ineffable music. Eighteenth Century Music [A] superb book... a living testimony that philological learning and literary sensibility can be happily compatible.
Herbert Lindenberger Modern Language Quarterly An extremely accomplished work that provides a powerful insight ... Read more
Herbert Lindenberger Modern Language Quarterly An extremely accomplished work that provides a powerful insight ... Read more