Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language

Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language
ISBN-10
023114220X
ISBN-13
9780231142205
Category
Music
Pages
252
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Authors
John T. Hamilton, Professor John Hamilton

Description

"The gap between sensation and its verbal representation proved especially problematic for romantic writers concerned with the ineffability of selfhood. Authors who engaged in self-representation necessarily faced problems of language, which compromised the uniqueness they wished to express. Music and madness unworked the generalizing functions of language and marked a critical limit in linguistic capabilities. However, as Hamilton demonstrates, although various conflicts between music, madness, and language questioned the visibility of signification, they also raised the possibility of producing meaning beyond signification."--BOOK JACKET.

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