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Virginia Woolf and Classical Music: Politics, Aesthetics, Form
Emma Sutton
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Description for Virginia Woolf and Classical Music: Politics, Aesthetics, Form
Paperback. Offers an investigation into the formative influence of music on Virginia Woolf's writing. The author discusses all of Woolf's novels as well as selected essays and short fiction, offering detailed commentaries on Woolf's numerous allusions to classical repertoire and to composers including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 294.
This study is a groundbreaking investigation into the formative influence of music on Virginia Woolf's writing. In this unique study Emma Sutton discusses all of Woolf's novels as well as selected essays and short fiction, offering detailed commentaries on Woolf's numerous allusions to classical repertoire and to composers including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner. Sutton explores Woolf's interest in the contested relationship between politics and music, placing her work in a matrix of ideas about music and national identity, class, anti Semitism, pacifism, sexuality and gender. The study also considers the formal influence of music - from fugue to Romantic ... Read more
This study is a groundbreaking investigation into the formative influence of music on Virginia Woolf's writing. In this unique study Emma Sutton discusses all of Woolf's novels as well as selected essays and short fiction, offering detailed commentaries on Woolf's numerous allusions to classical repertoire and to composers including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner. Sutton explores Woolf's interest in the contested relationship between politics and music, placing her work in a matrix of ideas about music and national identity, class, anti Semitism, pacifism, sexuality and gender. The study also considers the formal influence of music - from fugue to Romantic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474401432
SKU
V9781474401432
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About Emma Sutton
Emma Sutton is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Reviews for Virginia Woolf and Classical Music: Politics, Aesthetics, Form
...should be acquired as a matter of priority by any academic library wanting to keep its collection of Woolf scholarship up to date.
JAMES ACHESON, Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 62.2 Sutton's listening is both attentive and inventive, and brings a new sophistication and subtlety to our understanding of musical-literary relations in modernism.
Will May, University ... Read more
JAMES ACHESON, Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 62.2 Sutton's listening is both attentive and inventive, and brings a new sophistication and subtlety to our understanding of musical-literary relations in modernism.
Will May, University ... Read more