Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject.
Klein, Michael L.
Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (206 pages) - Musical Meaning and Interpretation Series . - Musical Meaning and Interpretation Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Music and the Symptom -- 2. The Acoustic Mirror as Formative of Auditory Pleasure and Fantasy: Chopin's Berceuse, Brahms's Romanze, and Saariaho's "Parfum de l'instant" -- 3. Debussy and the Three Machines of the Proustian Narrative -- 4. Chopin Dreams: The Mazurka in C♯ Minor as Sinthome -- Intermezzo: On Agency -- 5. Postmodern Quotation, the Signifying Chain, and the Erasure of History -- 6. Lutosławski, Molar and Molecular -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
By creatively navigating from critical theory to music, film, fiction, and back to music, Klein distills the kinds of meaning that we have been missing when we perform, listen to, think about, and write about music without the insights of Lacan and others into formulations of modern subjectivity.
9780253017222
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 -- Philosophy.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- Psychological aspects.
Musical analysis.
Electronic books.
ML3845 .K598 2015
781.1/7
Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (206 pages) - Musical Meaning and Interpretation Series . - Musical Meaning and Interpretation Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Music and the Symptom -- 2. The Acoustic Mirror as Formative of Auditory Pleasure and Fantasy: Chopin's Berceuse, Brahms's Romanze, and Saariaho's "Parfum de l'instant" -- 3. Debussy and the Three Machines of the Proustian Narrative -- 4. Chopin Dreams: The Mazurka in C♯ Minor as Sinthome -- Intermezzo: On Agency -- 5. Postmodern Quotation, the Signifying Chain, and the Erasure of History -- 6. Lutosławski, Molar and Molecular -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
By creatively navigating from critical theory to music, film, fiction, and back to music, Klein distills the kinds of meaning that we have been missing when we perform, listen to, think about, and write about music without the insights of Lacan and others into formulations of modern subjectivity.
9780253017222
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 -- Philosophy.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- Psychological aspects.
Musical analysis.
Electronic books.
ML3845 .K598 2015
781.1/7