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Resonant Gaps: Between Baudelaire and Wagner  
Author: Margaret Miner
ISBN: 0820317098
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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From Book News, Inc.
Miner explores the way in which Baudelaire exploited certain powers of figurative language while writing on music, particularly that of Wagner. Focusing on Baudelaire's 1861 essay Richard Wagner et Tannhauser a Paris (included, in French), she discusses such topics as his repertoire of textual and rhetorical maneuvers, his assessment of the music's ability to surround and suffuse listeners, and the misunderstandings about prejudices against Wagner and his music which hampered its critical reception in France. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Text: English, French




Resonant Gaps: Between Baudelaire and Wagner

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Resonant Gaps examines the ways in which Charles Baudelaire exploited certain powers of figurative language while writing on music, particularly that of Richard Wagner. Unlike many recent music/literature studies, Margaret Miner focuses less on the possible convergences of text and music than on their productive distances and divergences. At the heart of this study is Baudelaire's 1861 essay Richard Wagner et "Tannhauser" a Paris, which is included in this volume in the French text of the 1861 Dentu edition. Called a "long-meditated work of circumstance" by its author, Richard Wagner is the only piece of music criticism that Baudelaire ever attempted, despite the prominence of music as a theme and a metaphor throughout his writings. Miner discusses such topics related to Baudelaire's project as his repertoire of textual and rhetorical maneuvers, including italicization, quotation, personification, digression, and metaphor; his assessment of the music's seductive ability to surround and suffuse the listener; and the misunderstandings about and prejudices against Wagner and his music that hampered its critical reception in France. Throughout her study, Miner also refers to similar literary undertakings by Liszt, Nietzsche, Mallarme, and Proust, which involved the music of Wagner and Debussy.

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Miner explores the way in which Baudelaire exploited certain powers of figurative language while writing on music, particularly that of Wagner. Focusing on Baudelaire's 1861 essay Richard Wagner et Tannhauser a Paris (included, in French), she discusses such topics as his repertoire of textual and rhetorical maneuvers, his assessment of the music's ability to surround and suffuse listeners, and the misunderstandings about prejudices against Wagner and his music which hampered its critical reception in France. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

     



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