Literary Modernism and Musical Aesthetics

This book examines the theory and the practice of music in relation to the writing of four major modernist figures: Walter Pater Ezra Pound James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. Brad Bucknell examines modernist writers'' relationship and engagement with music from theories about music and musical-literary relations to the composition of music and libretti. Bucknell''s study investigates how music as a discrete artistic mode of expression and a recurring theme in the work of these four writers reveals the intricate and varied nature of the modernist project.