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Search - The Tooth That Nibbles at the Soul: Essays on Music and Poetry (Literary Conjugations)

The Tooth That Nibbles at the Soul Essays on Music and Poetry - Literary Conjugations
Author: Marshall Brown

The Tooth that Nibbles at the Soul brings together Marshall Brown's new and previously published writings on literature and music. These essays engage questions that are central to the development of literature, music, and the arts in the period from Romanticism at the end of the eighteenth century to the avant-garde movements of the early twent... more »ieth, a period in which the modern evolution of the arts is coupled with a rise in the significance of music as artistic form.--With a special focus on lyric poetry and canonical composers including Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert, Brown ties the growing prominence of music in this period to the modernist principle of abstraction. Music, as Brown provocatively notes, conveys meaning without explicitly saying anything. This principle of abstraction could be taken as the overriding formula for modernist art in general; and it explains why in this period music becomes the model to which all the other arts, in particular painting and literature, aspire.--Brown's title, taken from a poem by Emily Dickinson, reminds us that abstraction -- musical and artistic - is anything but toothless; indeed, it "nibbles at the soul" in subtle and enduring ways. Throughout his wide-ranging and erudite analysis, Brown's goal is to pinpoint the nature of music's bite and to illuminate the shared elements of literature and music.--While there are many previous comparisons of music and poetry, few are systematic or based on a solid knowledge of both literary criticism and musicology. Brown's essays can be enjoyed by a general, well-read public not trained in either music or eighteenth-century literature, as well as by an audience steeped in sophisticated (if not technical) musical analysis.--Marshall Brown is professor of comparative literature at the University of Washington. He is the editor of Modern Language Quarterly and coeditor, with Susan Wolfson, of Reading for Form. He is a translator, with Jane K. Brown, of Harald Weinrich's The Linguistics of Lying and Other Essays.--"Marshall Brown is simply one of the finest literary critics we have and one of the very few who are equally at home with literature and music. He is a classic example of the erudite scholar who wears his learning lightly; he writes with wit and verve; no one does close reading better; and he has the gift of constantly being able to surprise as well as to inform and stimulate. All serious students of literature and the arts will want to read this book, which they will find themselves not simply absorbing, but using." -Lawrence Kramer, author of Why Classical Music Still Matters

ISBN-13: 9780295990064
ISBN-10: 0295990066
Publication Date: 4/15/2010
Pages: 384
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University of Washington Press
Book Type: Paperback
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