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Author:   Charity McAdams
Publisher:   Lehigh University Press
Imprint:   Lehigh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.263kg
ISBN:  

9781611462067

ISBN 10:   1611462061
Pages:   170
Publication Date:   04 March 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1Is This Divine? No, This is the Voice of a Woman. Madame Malibran: The Very Genius of Music “The Spectacles”: In Imitation of Malibran The Alchemy of Unreason: Well and Strenuously Sung! 2Another Kind of Musician Altogether “The Fall of the House of Usher”: The Guitar and the Ballad The Case of the Ballad “Ulalume”: Faëry Ballet Indefinitiveness: The True Musical Expression “Annabel Lee”: The Sounding Sea “The Haunted Palace”: Spirits Moving Musically 3An Almost Magical Melody “Ligeia”: Siren Who Never Sings 4The Wantonest Singing Birds Poems as Songs in Language, Aim, and Purpose Ventum Textilem: The Veil of the Soul Mere Words: Birdsong “Fanny”: Wild Death Song, Sweet and Clear “Romance”: Unless It Trembled with the Strings “Nameless Here For Evermore”: To Sing Well is to Avoid Naming 5The Starry Choir (And Other Listening Things) Music of the Spheres: Music, in Our Own More Limited Sense of the Word “Al Aaraaf”: Music of the Passion-Hearted “Israfel”: Sweetest Voice of All God’s Creatures Power of Words: The Naiad Voice that Addresses Them From Below 6But Gradually my Songs They Ceased “The Cask of Amontillado”: The Conical Cap and Bells “The Bells”: What a World of Solemn Thought Their Monody Compels “A Pæan”: The Requiem for the Loveliest Dead “The Masque of the Red Death”: The Music Swells, and the Dreams Live, and Writhe Conclusion Appendix An Inherited Musical Talent The Idea without Music: Decontextualizing Poe ‘The Rational Agent of Enchantment Itself’: Absolute Music and the Music of the Spheres Bibliography

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Charity McAdams' fascinating, thorough, and luminous book is the key to understanding Poe's poetic idealism. That idealism conceives of itself as fundamentally musical. So we need to understand what music meant to Poe. This book gives us that understanding, by carefully mapping, for the first time, the relationship between Poe's words, the music he might have heard, and the music he imagined beyond the reach of our ears. It is a unique contribution both to Poe scholarship, and to the study of the relationship between poetry and music in the 19th century.--Peter Dayan, Universities of Edinburgh and Aalborg

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Charity McAdams is professor in the Honors department at Arizona State University.

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