The Acoustic Self in English Modernism and Beyond

Drawing on the analogy between musical meaning-making and human subjectivity, this book develops the concept of the acoustic self, exploring the ways in which musical characterization and structure are related to issues of subject-representation in the modernist English novel.

Zoltan Varga is Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway.

Introduction: We Hear Only Ourselves 1. Let's Get Lost 2. Of Fugue and Other Demons 3. Does Beethoven Kill? Absolute Music and the Self 4. Wagner, Je T'aime ... Moi Non Plus 5. The Dispersion of the Acoustic Self Epilogue