Musical stimulacra : literary narrative and the urge to listen /
"The title coinage of this book, stimulacra, refers to the fundamental capacity of literary narrative to stimulate our minds and senses by simulating things through words. Musical stimulacra are passages of fiction that readers are empowered to transpose into mental simulations of music. The bo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2021.
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| Series: | Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature.
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| Summary: | "The title coinage of this book, stimulacra, refers to the fundamental capacity of literary narrative to stimulate our minds and senses by simulating things through words. Musical stimulacra are passages of fiction that readers are empowered to transpose into mental simulations of music. The book theorizes how fiction can generate musical experience, explains what constitutes that experience, and explores the musical dimensions of three American novels: William T. Vollmann's Europe Central (2005), William H. Gass's Middle C (2013), and Richard Powers's Orfeo (2014)"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xxvi, 161 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780367858629 0367858622 9780367688196 0367688190 |