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Difficult Rhythm examines E. M. Forster's irrepressible interest in music, providing plentiful examples of how the eminent British author's fiction resonates with music. Musicologist Michelle Fillion analyzes his critical writings, short stories, and novels, including A Room with a View, which alludes to Beethoven, Wagner, and Schumann, and Howards End, which explicitly alerts readers how fiction can adopt musical forms and ideas. This volume also includes, for the first time in print, Forster's notes on Beethoven's piano sonatas. Documenting his knowledge of music, his musical favourites and friends, and his attitudes toward various composers, performances, and competing musical theories, this engaging book traces the musical influences of luminaries such as Wagner, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Britten on Forster's life and work.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Difficult Rhythm
• Author: Michelle Fillion
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780252079023
• ISBN: 0252079027
• ID: 01286841
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Weight: 332 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 229 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 2013

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