Musical biographies the music of memory in post-1945 German literature / Michal Ben-Horin.
| Author/creator | Ben-Horin, Michal |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016] |
| Description | viii, 173 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; Volume 20 |
| Contents | Overture : German catastrophe and the rebirth of musical biography -- Thomas Mann : dissonance as a mode of documentation -- Interlude I. Siegfried : atonality and decentralized narrative -- Gèunter Grass : rhythms of a fictitious testimony -- Interlude II. Clown : ironic tune between memory and oblivion -- Ingeborg Bachmann : the resonance of trauma -- Interlude III. Pianist : Austria from a musician's perspective -- Thomas Bernhard : writing, playing, and the compulsion to repeat -- Interlude IV. Composer : sound transfiguration after reunification -- Coda : the end of musical biography? |
| Abstract | "Musical Biographies examines that which bypasses verbal signification and is therefore absent from collective memory. More specifically, it looks at German and Austrian writers, who turned to music in order to develop appropriate modes to respond to the catastrophe of World War II. The book contributes to a new understanding of this past and demonstrates the complexities inherent in any attempt to understand traumatic experience." -- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016013958 |
| ISBN | 99783110457957 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (PDF) |
| ISBN | (epub) |