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A study of the reflexive relationship between music and language in the 19th century, this book maintains a discrete historical focus while drawing on an aesthetic going back to problems of epic delivery in ancient Greece. Franz Liszt is the organizing figure in this detailed study of music in Heine and Baudelaire.

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"Bernstein revitalizes the nineteenth century with her cogent examination of different discourses, genres and media. Her observations about the interwoven nature of music and literature are lucid and always to the point. This thoughtfully prepared study is a wonderful resource for dix-neuviémistes."—Susan Crampton-Frenchik, University of North Carolina

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Introduction; 1. Virtuosity and journalism; 2. Instruments of virtuosity; 3. Virtuosity; 4. Virtuosity, rhapsody, and Romantic philology; 5. Liszt's bad style; 6. Poetic originality and musical debt: paradoxes of translation; 7. Rivalry among the arts and professional limitations; 8. Music, painting, and writing in Baudelaire's Petits poemes en prose; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 01/12/1998
      ISBN13: 9780804735056, 978-0804735056
      ISBN10: 0804735050
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A study of the reflexive relationship between music and language in the 19th century, this book maintains a discrete historical focus while drawing on an aesthetic going back to problems of epic delivery in ancient Greece. Franz Liszt is the organizing figure in this detailed study of music in Heine and Baudelaire.

      Trade Review
      "Bernstein revitalizes the nineteenth century with her cogent examination of different discourses, genres and media. Her observations about the interwoven nature of music and literature are lucid and always to the point. This thoughtfully prepared study is a wonderful resource for dix-neuviémistes."—Susan Crampton-Frenchik, University of North Carolina

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; 1. Virtuosity and journalism; 2. Instruments of virtuosity; 3. Virtuosity; 4. Virtuosity, rhapsody, and Romantic philology; 5. Liszt's bad style; 6. Poetic originality and musical debt: paradoxes of translation; 7. Rivalry among the arts and professional limitations; 8. Music, painting, and writing in Baudelaire's Petits poemes en prose; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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