Music in the «Nachtwachen» by Davies, Paul

Music in the «Nachtwachen» (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820415598)

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Format: Hardcover
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Music in the «Nachtwachen» by Davies, Paul

Music in the «Nachtwachen»

$47.95
Music in the «Nachtwachen» by Davies, Paul

Music in the «Nachtwachen»

$47.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Paul Davies
ISBN-10: 0820415596
ISBN-13: 9780820415598
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1991
Pages: 191
Format: Hardcover
By Paul Davies
By Paul Davies
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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.

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