"Music more abstract than metaphor": Locating a poetics of tone in Henry James and James Merrill.
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Title
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"Music more abstract than metaphor": Locating a poetics of tone in Henry James and James Merrill.
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Identifier
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AAI3231992
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identifier
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3231992
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Creator
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Voigt, Christopher.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Fred Kaplan
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Date
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2006
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, American | Literature, English | Music
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Abstract
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Music More Abstract Than Metaphor explores a number of issues surrounding speakers, audiences, the ear and the music of a writer's speech. It also deals with the relation of a writer's voice to his written, and thus graphically delimited, performances. Specifically it seeks to locate tone, traditionally understood as mere style or manner of expression, inside a much broader category of linguistic and textual hermeneutics. Starting with a history of tone and a genealogy of its original relation to harmonic theory, Music More Abstract Than Metaphor locates tone as the fundament of any viable poetics. Later, taking its cue from post-Romantic music, the whole-tone scale and nineteenth-century theories of acoustics, this dissertation attempts to apply a more evolved definition of its subject to the centrality of dictation in the late manner of Henry James and, finally, the experimental works of American poet James Merrill.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
