Research Catalog

Title

Virginia Woolf : music, sound, language / Elicia Clements.

Author

Clements, Elicia, 1970-

Publication

• Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Description

x, 288 pages : music; 24 cm

Summary

"Arguing that sound is integral to Virginia Woolf's understanding of literature, Elicia Clements highlights how the sonorous enables Woolf to examine issues of meaning in language and art, elaborate a politics of listening, illuminate rhythmic and performative elements in her fiction, and explore how music itself provides a potential structural model that facilitates the innovation of her method in The Waves. Woolf's investigation of the exchange between literature and music is thoroughly intermedial: her novels disclose the crevices, convergences, and conflicts that arise when one traverses the intersectionality of these two art forms, revealing, in the process, Woolf's robust materialist feminism. This book focuses, therefore, on the conceptual, aesthetic, and political implications of the musico-literary pairing. Correspondingly, Clements uses a methodology that employs theoretical tools from the disciplines of both literary criticism and musicology, as well as several burgeoning and newly established fields including sound, listening, and performance studies. Ultimately, Clements argues that a wide-ranging combination of these two disciplines produces new ways to study not only literary and musical artifacts but also the methods we employ to analyze them."--

Subjects

• Music and literature
• Music in literature
• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation
• 1900-1999
• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Aesthetics
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Sound in literature
• Aesthetics
• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Knowledge > Music
• Music and literature > History > 20th century
• Music
• History

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index.

Contents

Introduction. I. Woolf's musical ear -- II. Interdisciplinary methods -- III. "Hoity te, hoity te, hoity te ...": Tripartite Woolf -- Part 1: An emerging earcon: Woolf's singers. Finding a voice. I. Resonant beginnings: The voyage out -- II. Sonic networks in Jacob's room -- III. Urban and rural interrelations in Mrs. Dalloway and To the lighthouse -- The earcon reproduces. I. "And what is a cry?": The waves -- II. Integrating the earcon in The years -- III. Aural multiplicity in Between the acts -- Part 2: Profound listening and acousmatics. Initial appreceptions. I. Materialized sonics and listening subjects in The voyage out -- II. Involuntary, yet profound, listening in Night and day -- III. International acousmatics: War and its veterans in Jacob's room and Mrs. Dalloway -- Bodies and voices. I. To the lighthouse and family acousmatics -- The gender of listening in The waves -- "Hush! ... Somebody's listening": The years -- Heterogeneous reattachments in Between the acts -- Part 3: Music as performance in Woolf's fiction. Performing women. I. Women at the piano in the first three novels -- II. Performing personal history in The years -- III. Historical reneactments: Between the acts -- The performativity of language: The waves musicalized. I. Word music: "(The rhythm is the main thing in writing)" -- II. The case of Ludwig van Beethoven -- III. Transforming Beethoven's Opus 130 and 133 into words -- Coda: A meditation on rhythm -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 19-10452

ISBN

• 9781487504267
• 1487504268

OCLC

1080215652

Author

Clements, Elicia, 1970- author.

Title

Virginia Woolf : music, sound, language / Elicia Clements.

Publisher

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

JFE 19-10452