{"product_id":"musical-stimulacra","title":"Musical Stimulacra","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe title coinage of this book, \u003ci\u003estimulacra\u003c\/i\u003e, refers to the fundamental capacity of literary narrative to stimulate our minds and senses by simulating things through words. Musical stimulacra are passages of fiction that readers are empowered to transpose into mental simulations of music. The book theorizes how fiction can generate musical experience, explains what constitutes that experience, and explores the musical dimensions of three American novels: William T. Vollmann’s \u003ci\u003eEurope Central\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), William H. Gass’s \u003ci\u003eMiddle C\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), and Richard Powers’s \u003ci\u003eOrfeo\u003c\/i\u003e (2014). \u003ci\u003eMusical Stimulacra\u003c\/i\u003e approaches fiction’s music from a readerly perspective. Instead of looking at how novels forever fail to compensate for music’s physical, structural, and affective properties, the book concentrates on what literary narrative \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c\/i\u003e do musically. Negotiating common grounds for cognitive audionarratology and intermediality studies, \u003ci\u003eMusical Stimulacra\u003c\/i\u003e builds its case on the assumption that, among other things, fiction urges us to listen—to musical words and worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54254579253592,"sku":"9780367688196","price":51.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780367688196_037228e0-5111-45be-82fc-a5b5bfca68b1.jpg?v=1777212062","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/musical-stimulacra","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}