Karl Heinz Bohrer
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853239567
- eISBN:
- 9781846314179
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853239567.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter provides a reflection by Karl Heinz Bohrer regarding how extraordinary moment has found its place as a central theme in modern literature. Bohrer supports his claim by engaging in topics ...
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This chapter provides a reflection by Karl Heinz Bohrer regarding how extraordinary moment has found its place as a central theme in modern literature. Bohrer supports his claim by engaging in topics such as how writers like James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Robert Musil avoid the usage of metaphysical references in their works, and also, on how Andre Breton conceptualized the surrealist event. Bohrer culminates all the findings for his arguments by indicating that suddenness is the common assumption of literary forms of the instant and a representation of an imaginative dimension.Less
This chapter provides a reflection by Karl Heinz Bohrer regarding how extraordinary moment has found its place as a central theme in modern literature. Bohrer supports his claim by engaging in topics such as how writers like James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Robert Musil avoid the usage of metaphysical references in their works, and also, on how Andre Breton conceptualized the surrealist event. Bohrer culminates all the findings for his arguments by indicating that suddenness is the common assumption of literary forms of the instant and a representation of an imaginative dimension.
Julian Johnson
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190233273
- eISBN:
- 9780190233303
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190233273.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Modernity is also the sense of being too early. A self-conscious searching for the new is exhibited by music from Caccini’s Le nuove musiche (1602) to the avant-garde. Beethoven’s sonata forms ...
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Modernity is also the sense of being too early. A self-conscious searching for the new is exhibited by music from Caccini’s Le nuove musiche (1602) to the avant-garde. Beethoven’s sonata forms articulate the sense of future-oriented time that followed the French Revolution and was manifest everywhere from the speed of the new railways to industrialized capitalism. The idea of time in flight, built into the Baroque fugue, finds expression in forms that threaten to fall apart. But it is in tonality itself that the desire of modern subjectivity finds its most powerful musical expression, from Monteverdi to Schoenberg. In extreme form the urgency of sensual desire becomes self-annihilating as music becomes a key site for utopian longing and the moment of suddenness in which the world might be definitively transformed (from Bach’s Matthew Passion to Janáček’s Makropulos Case).Less
Modernity is also the sense of being too early. A self-conscious searching for the new is exhibited by music from Caccini’s Le nuove musiche (1602) to the avant-garde. Beethoven’s sonata forms articulate the sense of future-oriented time that followed the French Revolution and was manifest everywhere from the speed of the new railways to industrialized capitalism. The idea of time in flight, built into the Baroque fugue, finds expression in forms that threaten to fall apart. But it is in tonality itself that the desire of modern subjectivity finds its most powerful musical expression, from Monteverdi to Schoenberg. In extreme form the urgency of sensual desire becomes self-annihilating as music becomes a key site for utopian longing and the moment of suddenness in which the world might be definitively transformed (from Bach’s Matthew Passion to Janáček’s Makropulos Case).
