Description

This book examines afresh the web of similarities and differences between music and poetry using works by Mallarme and Debussy as case studies. It challenges the easy metaphorical impressionism that has characterized much of the scholarly literature to date. Analysing Mallarme’s vision of a shared musico-poetic aesthetic, Elizabeth McCombie derives a set of performative structural motifs, analytical tools that express our experience of the two arts and their middle ground.

CONTENTS

Prologue
Notes on Editions and References
Introduction: Searching for the intermediary
1 Music in Mallarme: a musico-poetic aesthetic
2 The poetics of discontinuity: explosante fixe and eclat
3 L’adorable arabesque
4 Song and the eventail
Epilogue
Appendix: Score of Soupir
Glossary
Bibliography
Index