The “Suspicious Cosmopolitanism of Music”, or the Art of Sounds as a Point of Reference for World Literature
The “Suspicious Cosmopolitanism of Music”, or the Art of Sounds as a Point of Reference for World Literature
Author(s): Iwona PuchalskaContributor(s): Kaja Szymańska (Translator)
Subject(s): Music, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: comparative studies; musicology; world literature; correspondence of arts;
Summary/Abstract: From the point of view of the world literature studies music—as the most “abstract” art—turns out to be also in this respect very different from literature, which is strongly connected with the locality. The article discusses the universalising potency of musical themes and motives in literature.
Journal: Wielogłos
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 41
- Page Range: 17-33
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English