Modernism, Music and the Politics of Aesthetics

Gemma Moss

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2021

Modernism, Music and the Politics of Aesthetics

Gemma Moss

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474429924

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An interdisciplinary account of the political importance of music in modernist literature

A new methodology for analysing music in literature, informed by T. W. Adorno, that examines the politics of aesthetics
An intensely interdisciplinary book, with an extensive survey and analysis of music’s place in Ancient Greek philosophy, German Romanticism, French Symbolism, British Aestheticism, continental philosophy, as well as new musicology, sociology, and analytical philosophy
Conceptual re-framing of modernism as an investigation of the problems associated with post-Enlightenment rationality, logic and empiricism
Nuanced arguments about the politics of aesthetics and the real-world significance of literary and musical forms

Using an approach to music informed by T. W. Adorno, this book examines the real-world, political significance of seemingly abstracted things like musical and literary forms. Re-assessing music in James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Sylvia Townsend Warner, this book re-shapes temporal, aesthetic and political understandings of modernism, by arguing that music plays a crucial role in ongoing attempts to investigate language, rational thought and ideology using aesthetic forms.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Permissions Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
List of Abbreviations and Editions Used in the Text Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. On Music and Modernism: Philosophies, Histories, Approaches Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
2. James Joyce, Ulysses and the Politics of Musical Form Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
3. Ezra Pound, Music and Fascism: Towards Canto LXXV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
4. Sylvia Townsend Warner, Ideology and Marxist Aesthetics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
5. Music and Twenty-first-century Modernism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 280
Illustrations
- Other: 2 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474429924