A ‘Subtle Metamorphosis’: Sound, Mimesis and Transformation
A ‘Subtle Metamorphosis’: Sound, Mimesis and Transformation
This chapter continues and extends the argument of chapter 2 by considering the role of sound in modernist innovation. Beginning with the problem of sound in experimental work through Pound's writing on it, it then considers the place of sound in theosophy, and in particular sound's fundamental links with magical transformation per se. The chapter considers two very different engagements with the transformative powers of sound, first in The Magic Mountain and secondly in Finnegans Wake, to show how intimately the magic of sound is linked with experiment per se in each work.
Keywords: Sound, Ezra Pound, Theosophy, Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
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