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In literature, music often stands in for what cannot be put into words. While language creates meaning through differences, associations, and complex chains of signification, music also affects the body: it vibrates the organism, stimulating physical sensation and emotion. For many writers, classical music seemed to offer a different sort of communication: more direct than language, transmitting meanings directly to the listener, and transcending language by communicating through form. For Schopenhauer, music contained the essence of human emotion, offering not a representation of 'joy, sorrow, pain, horror, exaltation, cheerfulness,' but expressing these things 'as such in themselves, abstractly.' 1 Brad Bucknell writes that modernists held a similarly 'romantic belief in the expressive potential of music and in its capacity to go beyond the mere rationality of language.' 2 Music was integral to the poetics of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, and important to novelists such as E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ford Madox Ford, Dorothy Richardson, and James Joyce. Since the path-breaking early studies of music and literature by Alex Aaronson, Werner Wolf, and Eric Prieto, scholars have not

Author

Gemma Moss

Published

2020

Language

EN