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Listening to Iris Murdoch: Music, Sounds, and Silences 2022 ed. [Kietas viršelis]

  • Formatas: Hardback, 241 pages, aukštis x plotis: 210x148 mm, weight: 467 g, XVIII, 241 p., 1 Hardback
  • Serija: Iris Murdoch Today
  • Išleidimo metai: 16-Jun-2022
  • Leidėjas: Palgrave Macmillan
  • ISBN-10: 3031008596
  • ISBN-13: 9783031008597
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 241 pages, aukštis x plotis: 210x148 mm, weight: 467 g, XVIII, 241 p., 1 Hardback
  • Serija: Iris Murdoch Today
  • Išleidimo metai: 16-Jun-2022
  • Leidėjas: Palgrave Macmillan
  • ISBN-10: 3031008596
  • ISBN-13: 9783031008597
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When we think of Iris Murdochs relationship with art forms, the visual arts come most readily to mind. However, music and other sounds are equally important. Soundscapes music and other types of sound contribute to the richly textured atmosphere and moral tenor of Murdochs novels. This book will help readers to appreciate anew the sensuous nature of Iris Murdochs prose, and to listen for all kinds of music, sounds and silences in her novels, opening up a new sub-field in Murdoch studies in line with the emerging field of Word and Music Studies.









This study is supported by close readings of selected novels exemplifying the subtle variety of ways she deploys music, sounds and silence in her fiction. It also covers Murdochs knowledge of music and her allusions to music throughout her work, and includes a survey of musical settings of her words by various composers.

Recenzijos

This book is also a rare example of appendices being as fascinating and as impressive as the main text. Both scholarly and entertaining, it will be accessible to a general reader, although it is most likely to be of interest to those already reasonably familiar with Murdochs fiction who will surely find they hear things in the novels which they have never heard before. (Janfarie Skinner, Iris Murdoch Review, 2022)

Chapter 1 Listening to Iris Murdoch
1(16)
Introduction
1(2)
Music and Sound in Fiction: A Review of the Field
3(3)
Music in Murdoch's Life
6(3)
Discussions of Music in Murdoch's Philosophy
9(3)
The Sound-Worlds in Murdoch's Fiction
12(5)
Part I Music
17(66)
Chapter 2 `The Music Is Too Painful': Music as Character and Atmosphere
19(24)
Introduction
19(4)
`Awaken, My Blackbird': Music in The unicorn
23(4)
`Like a Breathless Enchanted Girl': Music in The red and the green
27(4)
The Swan Princess: Music in The time of the angels
31(5)
The Concourse of Sweet Sounds': Music in The nice and the good
36(4)
Conclusion
40(3)
Chapter 3 `The Point at Which Flesh and Spirit Most Joyfully Meet': Singers and Singing
43(20)
Introduction
43(3)
`Che cosa e amor?': Singing in The sea, the sea
46(3)
Singing as Exclusion in The message to the planet
49(6)
`Never to Sing Again? Never?': Singing in The philosopher's pupil (1983)
55(5)
Conclusion
60(3)
Chapter 4 Musical Women and Unmusical Men
63(20)
Introduction: `Of Course They Never Let the Women Sing'
63(1)
Quiet Women: The good apprentice
64(3)
Silent Pianos
67(4)
No Women Composers
71(2)
Opera, Intimacy, Sexuality and Androgyny in A fairly honourable defeat
73(6)
Conclusion
79(4)
Part II Silence and Sound
83(46)
Chapter 5 `Different Voices, Different Discourses': Voices and Other Human Sounds
85(22)
Introduction: Serious Noticing
85(3)
The Long Search for Words': `Something special'
88(6)
The Quiet Sound of Voices': The sandcasde
94(4)
`Intolerable with Menace': Henry and Cato
98(4)
`A Mechanical Litany': The good apprentice
102(3)
Conclusion
105(2)
Chapter 6 `Like a Clarity Under a Mist': Ambient Noise and Silence, Dreamscapes and Atmosphere
107(22)
Introduction
107(1)
The sacred and profane love machine: The Drama of Silence
108(2)
The black prince and Under the net: Silence and Art
110(4)
Bruno's dream: Synaesthesia and Perception
114(8)
Nuns and soldiers
122(5)
Conclusion
127(2)
Part III Settings
129(34)
Chapter 7 `Just Bring Me the Composers': Musical Settings of Iris Murdoch's Words
131(32)
Introduction
131(2)
The servants--Opera: Music by William Mathias, Libretto by Iris Murdoch
133(5)
The round horizon, Cantata in Five Parts: Music by Christopher Bochmann, Words by Iris Murdoch
138(3)
The one alone: Radio Play with Music by Gary Carpenter
141(4)
A year of birds: Song Cycle for Soprano and Orchestra by Malcolm Williamson
145(4)
Forgive me. In Memoriam Iris Murdoch, 1919-1999, for Unaccompanied Vocal Ensemble (SATB) by Paul Crabtree
149(7)
Conclusion: Iris Murdoch Set to Music
156(3)
Coda: Sound, Music, Silence and Listening
159(4)
Part IV The Music
163(2)
Appendix A Music Mentioned in Murdoch's Fiction
165(46)
Classical Composers
165(1)
Vocal Music
166(1)
Chronological List of Music Mentioned in Murdoch's Fiction
166(45)
Appendix B Items in Iris Murdoch's Oxford Music Collection Held at Kingston University Library
211(12)
Iris Murdoch's Manuscript Notebooks of Songs
212(1)
Anthologies, Collections, Scores etc.
213(3)
Single Works
216(7)
References 223(8)
Index 231
Gillian Dooley is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Flinders University, South Australia. She has written extensively on various literary topics, often in connection with music. Her publications include From a Tiny Corner of the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch (2003) and other edited works on Murdoch, as well as monographs on V.S. Naipaul and J.M. Coetzee.