Jazz in the Time of the Novel : The Temporal Politics of American Race and Culture /

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Jazz in the Time of the Novel argues that a culture's understanding of the concept of time plays a central role in its economic, social, and aesthetic affairs and that a culture arrives at its conception of time through its artistic practices. Bruce Barnhart, in Jazz in the Time of the Novel, s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnhart, Bruce, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Time in literature.
Rhythm in literature.
Music in literature.
Jazz in literature.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Temps dans la litterature.
Rythme dans la litterature.
Musique dans la litterature.
Jazz dans la litterature.
Roman americain > Histoire et critique.
American fiction > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Jazz and the novel in the cultural and imaginative landscape
  • Music, race, and sublimation: ragtime and symphonic time in the autobiography of an ex-colored man
  • "Carolina shout" and the rhythms of rent-party performance
  • Forms of repetition and jazz sociality in The Great Gatsby
  • Vibratory time in Smith and Armstrong's "St. Louis Blues"
  • Rhythmicizing the novel: temporal taxonomies from Larsen to Hemingway, Stein to Hughe.

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