“The River That Does Not Know Its Own Source Will Dry Up”: Caryl Phillips’s Musicalized Fiction
The article seeks to give an overview of Phillips’s musical prose and to gauge its emotional impact on the readers. It concentrates on three novels by Phillips: The Lost Child (2015) where music is thematically present, The Nature of Blood (1997) which stylistically approximates music, and Dancing i...
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| Dans: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | The article seeks to give an overview of Phillips’s musical prose and to gauge its emotional impact on the readers. It concentrates on three novels by Phillips: The Lost Child (2015) where music is thematically present, The Nature of Blood (1997) which stylistically approximates music, and Dancing in the Dark (2005) which relies on both forms of relations between music and literature. |
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