Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language

by John T. Hamilton

Book Overview

In the romantic tradition, music is consistently associated with madness, either as cause or cure. Writers as diverse as Kleist, Hoffmann, and Nietzsche articulated this theme, which in fact reaches back to classical antiquity and continues to resonate in the modern imagination. What John Hamilton investigates in this study is the way literary, philosophical, and psychological treatments of music and madness challenge the limits of representation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231142218
• ISBN13: 9780231142212
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"