The Acoustic Self in English Modernism and Beyond Writing Musically

Drawing on the analogy between musical meaning-making and human subjectivity, this book develops the concept of the acoustic self, exploring the ways in which musical characterization and structure are related to issues of subject-representation in the modernist English novel. The volume is framed a...

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Main Author: Varga, Zoltan (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2022
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