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In Search of Vinteuil
James Holden
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Description for In Search of Vinteuil
Hardcover. Attempts to gain access to the lost and impossible experiences the music piece pointed towards. This title reveals the role of memory in musical appreciation, and music's ability to lay before us different worlds. Num Pages: 155 pages, illus. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
Positioning himself as autobiographer, literary critic and pianist, James Holden presents an homage to Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). "One night I came across the recording of a piano work that I had composed whilst still at school. The strange thing was, I had no recollection of it whatsoever. As I sat and listened to it, it revealed to me, or so it seemed, a self that I had no connection with and a past that I had not lived." In Search of Vinteuil is an attempt to gain access to all ... Read more
Positioning himself as autobiographer, literary critic and pianist, James Holden presents an homage to Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). "One night I came across the recording of a piano work that I had composed whilst still at school. The strange thing was, I had no recollection of it whatsoever. As I sat and listened to it, it revealed to me, or so it seemed, a self that I had no connection with and a past that I had not lived." In Search of Vinteuil is an attempt to gain access to all ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
155
Condition
New
Number of Pages
155
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845193201
SKU
V9781845193201
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99-44
About James Holden
James Holden was born in Ashford and educated at Loughborough University. He is co-author (with Dr Simon King) of an experimental work of science-fiction criticism entitled Conceptual Breakthrough: Two Experiments In SF Criticism Star/Alien (2007). Dr Holden has also guest edited a special issue of the online journal Writing Technologies on the work of Martin Heidegger. He plays the piano. ... Read more
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