Literary Modernism and Musical Aesthetics

This book examines the theory and the practice of music, in relation to the writing of four major modernist figures: Walter Pater, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. Brad Bucknell examines modernist writers' relationship and engagement with music, from theories about music and musical-literary relations to the composition of music and libretti. Bucknell's study investigates how music, as a discrete artistic mode of expression, and a recurring theme in the work of these four writers, reveals the intricate and varied nature of the modernist project.

• | Author: Brad Bucknell
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 21, 2002
• | Number of Pages: 302 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0521660289
• | ISBN-13: 9780521660280