Overview

These essays explore music and its relationship to language, aesthetics, and culture in the life and work of the preeminent Modernist writer Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, and other works). Approaching Woolf from musicology, literary criticism, and gender studies, the collection examines her musical background; music in her fiction and critical writings; and the importance of music in the Bloomsbury milieu and its role within the larger framework of Modernism. Making use of Woolf's diaries, letters, fiction, and the testimony of her contemporaries, these essays illuminate the rich and deeply musical nature of Woolf's works.

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Author:   Adriana L. Varga ,  Sanja Bahun ,  Elicia Clements ,  Deborah Crisp
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.617kg
ISBN:  

9780253012463

ISBN 10:   0253012465
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   20 May 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Preface / Mihály Szegedy-Maszák List of Abbreviations Introduction / Adriana Varga Part I: Music and Bloomsbury Culture 1. Bloomsbury and Music / Rosemary Lloyd 2. Virginia Woolf and Musical Culture / Miháy Szegedy-Maszák Part II Ut Musica Poesis: Music and the Novel 3. Music, Language, and Moments of Being: From The Voyage Out to Between the Acts / Adriana Varga 4. The Birth of Rachel Vinrace from the Spirit of Music / Jim Stewart 5. ""The Worst of Music"": Listening and Narrative in Night and Day and ""The String Quartet"" / Vanessa Manhire 6. Flying Dutchmen, Wandering Jews: Romantic Opera, Anti-Semitism and Jewish Mourning in Mrs Dalloway / Emma Sutton 7. The Efficacy of Performance: Musical Events in The Years / Elicia Clements 8. Sounding the Past: The Music in Between the Acts / Trina Thompson Part III Music, Art, Film and Virginia Woolf's Modernist Aesthetics 8. Broken Music, Broken History: Sounds and Silence in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts / Sanja Bahun 9. ""Shivering Fragments"": Music, Art, and Dance In Virginia Woolf's Writing / Evelyn Haller 10. Chiming the Hours: A Philip Glass Soundtrack / Roger Hillman and Deborah Crisp Contributors Index

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This book explains why Virginia Woolf believed that 'a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world' and how profoundly she was influenced by many other composers. Reading the essays collected here, we understand Woolf's conviction that 'we are the music; we are the thing itself.' - Susan Gubar, author of Rooms of Our Own

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Adriana Varga teaches English and Global and Historical Studies at Butler University, Indianapolis.

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