Arts of Incompletion: Fragments in Words and Music: 18 (Word and Music Studies) - Hardcover

Book 1 of 22: Word and Music Studies

Walter Bernhart; Axel Englund

 
9789004467118: Arts of Incompletion: Fragments in Words and Music: 18 (Word and Music Studies)

Synopsis

Incompletion is an essential condition of cultural history, and particularly the idea of the fragment became a central element of Romantic art which continued being of high relevance to the various strands of modernist and contemporary aesthetics.

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About the Author

Walter Bernhart is retired Professor of English Literature, University of Graz; he was long-term President of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA) and is executive editor of Word and Music Studies (WMS). His collected essays on literature and music were published in 2015. Axel Englund is Professor of Literature and Wallenberg Academy Fellow at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University. He is the author of Deviant Opera: Sex, Power, and Perversion on Stage (2020) and Still Songs: Music In and Around the Poetry of Paul Celan (2012).

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