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Music Writing Literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida

Music Writing Literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida

  • Author: Dayan, Peter
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Contents

  • Contents: Foreword, with apologies
  • Translating the raindrop
  • A sermon on the violin
  • Baudelaire's Wagner: the indescribable, the untranslatable, the inaudible
  • Keeping the voice of the nightingale alive in the age of mechanical reproduction
  • On the evidence of Mallarme's music
  • How music enables Proust to write paradise lost
  • 'Song must write': Roland Barthes's hallucinations
  • 'Sing me a song to make death tolerable': music in mourning for Derrida
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.