Charity McAdams

Poe and the Idea of Music

Failure, Transcendence, and Dark Romanticism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The selling point of this book I think is that it's the only book that addresses Edgar Allan Poe's use of music from a purely literary standpoint.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lehigh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9781611462067
• ISBN-10: 1611462061
• Artikelnr.: 58519099

Autorenporträt

Charity McAdams

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Is 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!
2 Another 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
3 An Almost Magical Melody
"Ligeia": Siren Who Never Sings
4 The 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
5 The Starry Choir (And Other Listening Things)
Music of the Spheres: Music, in Our Own More Limited Sense of the Word
"Al Aaraaf": Music o