“The Musical Web”:The Imitation of Wagner's Symphony in Thomas Hardy's Novels

Abstract

Abstract: “The musical web” is a concept of evaluation that defines the aesthetic features in Thomas Hardy's novels. The basic media it relies on is the craft of literature, which embodies a cross-media narrative technique that uses words to imitate music. While acknowledging Wagner's creative practice based on Schopenhauer's musical philosophy, the “musical web” appears to accomplish, both in form and content, a cross-media narrative reinforced by symphonic music in Wagner's music drama. In form, “the musical web” imitates the “prelude” and “leitmotif” in Wagner's symphonic music; in content, it imitates its sound structure of “Tristan chord” and “symbiotic structure of language and music.”

Key words: Thomas Hardy, Richard Wagner, imitation, cross-media narrative, music dramas

Wang Xichong. “The Musical Web”:The Imitation of Wagner's Symphony in Thomas Hardy's Novels[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2021, 43(4): 99-109.

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