Music in the Nachtwachen

Paul Davies (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

191 Seiten

1991
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-1559-8 (ISBN)

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Bonaventura's Nachtwachen (1804/05) has puzzled and troubled critics through its scepticism, nihilism, and scathing irony. By focussing on these aspects, critics have tended to overlook the role of music as a positive value and counterbalance to Bonaventura's mad topsy-turvy world. It is precisely this fascinating and multilayered use of music in the Nachtwachen that is explored in this book from a variety of different angles and perspectives. The book establishes the central importance of music as a literary metaphor as well as an absolute positive value in the world of the Nachtwachen. At the same time the book invites us to reconsider Bonaventura's novel in the light of the contemporary Romantic reception of music in German literature.

The Author: Dr. Paul Davies is a part-time lecturer in German at the German Department of Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. After undergraduate work at Leicester University, England, he went to Canada, where he obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in German from the Universities of Manitoba and Queen's. Dr. Davies was a German Academic Exchange Scholar at the University of Munich from 1983 to 1985. An expert on German Romanticism, he has also published articles on German Expressionism and Kleist, and has translated a novel Lute-der Fluch into English.

Contents: This book deals with musical figures, references, and analogies in Bonaventura's Nachtwachen as well as with literary depictions of musical accompaniment and the role of music as a positive force.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.11.1991
Reihe/Serie	American University Studies ; 94
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Sprach- und Wörterbuch / Deutsch
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Germanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	American University Studies; vol. 94
ISBN-10	0-8204-1559-6 / 0820415596
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-1559-8 / 9780820415598
Zustand	Neuware