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portada Weird Music: Reading John Ireland and Arthur Machen
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
232
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.4 x 15.6 x 1.4 cm
ISBN13
9781837652907

Weird Music: Reading John Ireland and Arthur Machen

Mcelroy, Eric (Author) · Boydell Press · Hardcover

Weird Music: Reading John Ireland and Arthur Machen - McElroy, Eric

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Synopsis "Weird Music: Reading John Ireland and Arthur Machen"

Using John Ireland's fascination with Arthur Machen as case study, this book challenges our perception of the correspondence between music and literature in twentieth-century Britain.The composer John Ireland (1879-1962) declared repeatedly that no one could understand his music until they had first read the work of his favourite writer, Arthur Machen (1863-1947). This book is the first study to take Ireland at his word. Revolving around Machen's classification as a founding figure of 'weird fiction', it uses weird aesthetics as an interpretative lens with which to understand Ireland's notoriously cryptic life and music. Its four chapters deal respectively with Machen's and Ireland's parallel experience of fin-de-siècle London; with their engagement with the English pastoral tradition; with their explorations of weird art's relationship with eroticism; and with unsettling implications of alternative historiography. The resulting portrait reveals Ireland to be one of Britain's pre-eminent 'weird artists', placing Ireland in the aesthetic context with which he wished to be associated. It therefore fills a significant gap in British musicology, while at the same time contributing to a growing appreciation of Machen as a major figure in British culture, one whose influence exceeds far beyond the literary sphere to which he is traditionally confined. Using Ireland's fascination with Machen as its case study, this book makes a timely and necessary connection between the literary weird and its musical doppelgänger, enriching and challenging our perception of the correspondence between music and literature in twentieth-century Britain.

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