Emily Bronte and Beethoven by Robert K Wallace
Wallace compares Bronte and Beethoven through a close examination of the Romantic traits that their works share and extends literary criticism into a new context where equilibrium, balance, proportion, and symmetry serve as a fulcrum for a new understanding of the formal parallels, the moods and emotions that connect music and literature.[Wallace] has carried off a difficult and complex subject with grace and assurance. . . In bringing Bronte and Beethoven together, moreover, Wallace has created a book that reaches beyond the two individuals he has so effectively compared to touch as well on questions of aesthetics and creativity themselves.
-- Victorian StudiesThis challenging integrative study offers some clever analytical insights. It includes thorough notes and a useful index.
-- ChoiceWallace's eye-opening (and ear-dilating) accomplishment . . . has left us much to contemplate-indeed, he has made a major contribution to the study of literature and music, to our knowledge of Romanticism and European culture in the early nineteenth century, and to the refinement and coherence of our perception of masterworks of Beethoven and Emily Bronte.
-- National ReviewROBERT K. WALLACE is Regents Professor of Literature at Northern Kentucky University. He is also the author of Emily Bronte and Beethoven: Romantic Equilibrium in Fiction and Music (Georgia); A Century of Music Making: The Lives of Josef and Rosina Lhevinne; Melville and Turner: Spheres of Love and Fright (Georgia); Frank Stella's Moby-Dick: Words and Shapes; Douglass and Melville: Anchored Together in Neighborly Style; and Thirteen Women Strong: The Making of a Team.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780820332956 |
| ISBN 10 | 082033295X |
| Title | Emily Bronte and Beethoven |
| Author | Robert K Wallace |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
| Year published | 2008-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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