Modernism, Music and the Politics of Aesthetics

By Gemma Moss

Book Overview

Using an approach to music informed by T. W. Adorno, this book examines the real-world, political significance of seemingly abstracted things like musical and literary forms. Re-assessing music in James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Sylvia Townsend Warner, this book re-shapes temporal, aesthetic and political understandings of modernism, by arguing that music plays a crucial role in ongoing attempts to investigate language, rational thought and ideology using aesthetic forms.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474429912
• ISBN13: 9781474429917
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"