The volume explores the various intersections and interconnections of the self and popular music in fiction; it examines questions of musical taste and identity construction across decades, spaces, social groups, and cultural contexts, covering a wide range of literary and musical genres.
This collection of essays explores the relation of words and music to issues of the popular. It asks: What is popularity or 'the' popular and what role(s) does music play in it? What is the function of the popular, and is 'pop' a system?
... literature. His most recent book publications include Taking Stock—Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research (co-editor, 2020), Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer (editor, 2020), Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in ...
... Pop: Cultural Appropriation, Gentrification, and Retromania in Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude, Michael Chabon's Telegraph Avenue, and Paul Beatty's Slumberland." Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction. Brill, 2021 ...
Arne Merilai. coincidental. Especially thought-provoking is the characteristic fact that poetic self-referentiality—as the core of the secondary modelling ... poetry , music , whichever primordial activity is already occurring 10 Chapter I.
Students in literature classes will value this guide to an increasingly popular body of literature, while students in social studies classes will welcome its illumination of American cultural diversity.
It is with the stanza's last two lines that she struggled . Draft one : What will they taste of , the Christmas roses ? Snow water ? Corpses ? To this she added , “ A Sweet spring ? ” but crossed it out . “ Spring ? ” left intact .
A Poetics of Fiction
With censorship still employed in many regions of the world today, readers will discover various striking differences--as well as numerous astounding similarities--to current practices of censorship in this book.
With over 50 stories published in the last two years and nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, "short story master" DiCicco weaves his tales into an auspicious debut collection.
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