How Long to Read Music Writing Literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida

How Long Does it Take to Read Music Writing Literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 36 minutes to read Music Writing Literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida by Peter Dayan

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Description

Why does poetry appeal to music? Can music be said to communicate, as language does? What, between music and poetry, is it possible to translate? These fundamental questions have remained obstinately difficult, despite the recent burgeoning of word and music studies. Peter Dayan contends that the reasons for this difficulty were worked out with extraordinary rigour and consistency in a French literary tradition, echoed by composers such as Berlioz and Debussy, which stretches from Sand to Derrida. Their writing shows how it is both necessary and futile to look for music in poetry, or for poetry in music: necessary, because each art defines itself by reference to what it is not, and cannot be, in order to point to an idealized totality outside itself; futile, because the musicality of poetry, like the poetic meaning of music, must remain as elusive as that idealized totality; its distance is the very condition of the art. Thus is generated a subtle but unmistakable general definition of the nature of art which has proved uniquely able to survive all the probings of poststructuralism. That definition of art is inseparable from a disturbingly effective scepticism towards all forms of explication and explanation in critical discourse, so it is doubtless not surprising that critics in general have done their best to ignore it. But by bringing out what Sand, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Proust, Debussy, Berlioz, Barthes, and Derrida all do in the same way as they work on the limits of the analogy between music and literature, this book shows how it is possible, productive, illuminating, and fascinating to work on those limits; though to do so, as we find repeatedly, in Chopin's dreams as in Derrida's 'tombeaux', requires us to have the courage to face, in music, our literal death, and the limits of our intelligence.

How long is Music Writing Literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida?

Music Writing Literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida by Peter Dayan is 154 pages long, and a total of 39,116 words.

This makes it 52% the length of the average book. It also has 48% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Music Writing Literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 33 minutes to read Music Writing Literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida aloud.

What Reading Level is Music Writing Literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida?

Music Writing Literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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