Full Description
Alongside readings of modern novels (including work by David Mitchell, Zadie Smith, Jackie Kay and Andrew O'Hagan), Gerry Smyth offers an extended theoretical analysis of the relationship between music and fiction, as well as a critical overview of the role played by music in the canon of British fiction since the eighteenth century.
Contents
Introduction: Listening to the Novel 'All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music': The Music-Novel in Theory and Practice The Role and Representation of Music in the Novel from Lawrence Sterne to Anthony Burgess 'It Ain't What You Do...': Musical Genre in the Novel '...It's the Way That You Do It!': Music and the Genres of Fiction The Uses of Music in the Contemporary British Novel Notes Bibliography
