Music, Sound, Language
By Elicia Clements
Arguing that sound is integral to Virginia Woolf's understanding of literature, Elicia Clements highlights how the sonorous enables Woolf to examine issues of meaning in language and art, elaborate a politics of listening, illuminate rhythmic and performative elements in her fiction, and explore how music itself provides a potential structural model that facilitates the innovation of her method in The Waves.
"Despite the abundance of existing scholarship about Virginia Woolf, including her fiction, her essays, her diaries, and her letters, there is a relatively small amount of work that focuses solely and expansively on her relationship to music, sound, and language. In this highly readable book, Elicia Clements uncovers several new areas in musico-literary scholarship and the works of Virginia Woolf."

Bret Keeling, Department of English, Northeastern University

Hardcover | 9781487504267 | 304 pages
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