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 | | Language, Music, and the Sign: A Study in Aesthetics, Poetics and Poetic Practice from Collins to Coleridge by Kevin M. Barry ISBN-10: 9780521341752 ISBN-10: 0-521-34175-2 ISBN-13: 9780521341752 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-34175-2 Hardcover 1987-12-25 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Book Description Barry's book is the first ever to present a full conceptual and informational account of the relationship among theories of music, language, and poetry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The study demonstrates the importance of music and the development of instrumental forms to ideas of language, poetry, and interpretation. For example, Barry is able to connect a theory about the effect of empty musical signs on listeners to assumptions about a language's conflict with its idiom of representation. The study analyzes such philosophers as Berkeley, Hume, and Kant; the poets Collins, Blake, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Coleridge; and a variety of lesser-known theorists. | ||