Description
Book SynopsisThis book will be of interest to scholars of Anglophone literary modernism and to musicologists interested in how music was given new literary and cultural meaning during that complex interdisciplinary period.
Trade ReviewEpstein commands an impressively wide field of reference and his writing is always lively, richly textured and colourful - sometimes brilliantly so... Sublime Noise is a thought-provoking study, densely packed with intelligent connections and highly resonant. Times Literary Supplement ... he writes beautifully, has researched widely and deeply, and is clearly in command of his material. The most admirable thing about this exquisitely dilatory book is that each sentence has its own rhythm. James Joyce Quarterly
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Orchestrating Modernity: Musical Culture and the Arts of Noise
2. Beating Obedient, Thinking of the Key: Adorno, The Waste Land, and the Total Work of Art
3. The Antheil Era: Ezra Pound's MusicalSensations
4. Joyce's Phoneygraphs
5. Performing Publicity: Authenticity, Influence, andthe Sitwellian Commedia
6. Aristocracy of the Dissonant: The Sublime Noise of Forster and Britten
Notes
Bibliography
Index
