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Poe and the Idea of Music: Failure, Transcendence, and Dark Romanticism (Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe)

Charity McAdams

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Description:Edgar Allan Poe often set the scenes of his stories and poems with music: angels have the heartstrings of lutes, spirits dance, and women speak with melodic voices. These musical ideas appear to mimic the ways other authors, particularly Romanticists, used music in their works to represent a spiritual ideal artistic realm. Music brought forth the otherworldly, and spoke to the possible transcendence of the human spirit. Yet, Poe's music differs from these Romantic notions in ways that, although not immediately perceptible in each individual instance, cohere to invert Romantic idealism. For Poe, artistic transcendence is impossible, the metaphysical realm is unreachable, and humans cannot perceive anything but their own failure of spirit. In this book, I show how we can look at Poe's poems and stories on the whole to discover this, and in doing so, unpack some of Poe's mysticism along the way. --Peter Dayan, Universities of Edinburgh and AalborgWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Poe and the Idea of Music: Failure, Transcendence, and Dark Romanticism (Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe). To get started finding Poe and the Idea of Music: Failure, Transcendence, and Dark Romanticism (Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Edgar Allan Poe often set the scenes of his stories and poems with music: angels have the heartstrings of lutes, spirits dance, and women speak with melodic voices. These musical ideas appear to mimic the ways other authors, particularly Romanticists, used music in their works to represent a spiritual ideal artistic realm. Music brought forth the otherworldly, and spoke to the possible transcendence of the human spirit. Yet, Poe's music differs from these Romantic notions in ways that, although not immediately perceptible in each individual instance, cohere to invert Romantic idealism. For Poe, artistic transcendence is impossible, the metaphysical realm is unreachable, and humans cannot perceive anything but their own failure of spirit. In this book, I show how we can look at Poe's poems and stories on the whole to discover this, and in doing so, unpack some of Poe's mysticism along the way. --Peter Dayan, Universities of Edinburgh and AalborgWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Poe and the Idea of Music: Failure, Transcendence, and Dark Romanticism (Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe). To get started finding Poe and the Idea of Music: Failure, Transcendence, and Dark Romanticism (Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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