Sound and Sense: Musical Allusion and Imagery in the Novels of Iris Murdoch (American University Studies) - Hardcover

Mettler, Darlene D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082041462X ISBN 13: 9780820414621

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 1991

Synopsis

The interrelationship between music and literature continues to be a field of growing interest. This groundbreaking study examines the extensive use of musical allusion and imagery found in the novels of contemporary British novelist Iris Murdoch. Focusing primarily on eight novels that span Murdoch's thirty-five year publishing career, Darlene Mettler's investigation explores music in all its disparate forms and suggests a fascinating and innovative approach to the brilliant canon of Dame Murdoch.

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About the Author:

The Author: Darlene D. Mettler is Associate Professor of English at Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia. She received her B.A. from Milligan College, her M.A. from the University of South Florida, and her Ph.D. from Georgia State University. Her professional experience includes many years of college teaching, a Visiting Lectureship in England, and study in Peru as a Fulbright Scholar.

Review:

«This is an utterly fascinating exploration of an important new dimension of Iris Murdoch's fictional worlds. All students of Murdoch's brilliant novels will be in debt to Darlene Mettler for such a rich and rewarding study.» (John J. Burke, Jr., President, Iris Murdoch Society)
«Darlene Mettler's study of Iris Murdoch's fiction plunges to the heart of Murdoch's version of intellectual and artistic life in contemporary Britain; no previous book so profoundly investigates the uses of music and other arts made by one of the great novelists of our time.» (Ted R. Spivey, Georgia State University)
«Darlene Mettler's 'Sound and Sense' is a thoughtful study of a previously unexplored area of Murdoch's fiction, and an important contribution to Murdoch criticism.» (Jill Hague, Middle Tennessee State University)
«Mettler notices how often music 'upsets' and 'distresses' Murdoch characters. Murdoch often gives her own characters something of her own emotional generosity and reponsiveness, and Mettler has some interesting comment on and analysis of this species of sensitivity.» (Peter J. Conradi, Iris Murdoch News Letter)

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 082041462X
• ISBN 13: 9780820414621
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 169