Moonlighting : Beethoven and Literary Modernism, Hardcover by Waddell, Nathan...

Description: Moonlighting : Beethoven and Literary Modernism, Hardcover by Waddell, Nathan, ISBN 0198816707, ISBN-13 9780198816706, Brand New, Free shipping in the US How and why did the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1) matter to experimental writers in the early twentieth century? Previous answers to this question have tended to focus on structural analogies between musical works and literary texts, charting the many different ways in
which poetry and prose resemble Beethovens compositions. This book takes a different approach. It focuses on how early twentieth-century writers--chief among them E. M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, Wyndham Lewis, Dorothy Richardson, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf--profited from the representational
conventions associated in the nineteenth century and beyond with Beethovenian culture.

The emphasis of Moonlighting falls for the most part on how modernist writers made use of Beethovenian legend. It is concerned neither with formal similarities between Beethovens music and modernist writing nor with the music of Beethoven per se, but with certain ways of understanding Beethovens
music which had long before 1900 taken shape as habit, myth, cliche, and fantasy, and with the influence they had on experimental writing up to 1930. Moonlighting suggests that the modernists drew knowingly and creatively on the conventional. It proposes that many of the most experimental works of
modernist literature were shaped by a knowing reliance on Beethovenian consensus; in short, that the literary modernists knew Beethovenian legend when they saw it, and that they were eager to use it.

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