Thomas Gurke
Biographic Data
| ID | 5401122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Gurke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Gurke |
| SIGNATURE | GURKE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | German, Nordic, Slavic and Dutch, University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2877-3163 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Idea of Notational Ekphrasis in Words and Music
This chapter will focus on the presence of musical notation in literary texts, their aesthetic, (inter-)medial presence and potentialities, in paradigmatic Modern short stories such as Katherine Mansfield’s “The Wind Blows” (1915), Virginia Woolf’s “The String Quartet” (1921) and Vladimir Nabokov’s “Music” (1932). What these stories share is a perception of music as sonorous moving forms, symbolic imagery or seemingly ‘dancing’ musical notation o…
That Rarefied Amalgam of Time” – Tracing the Temporal in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones
Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones entails various time-discourses which the following will trace: (I) The Temporal Trace as Form and Imprint by which the text itself leaves an iconic mark of the configuration of space into the novel’s narrative time. (II) The Temporal Trace as Content and Stream through which the text accounts for the fact that it is not bound to any human notion of time. And, finally, (III) The Temporal Trace as Experience which aims…
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That Rarefied Amalgam of Time” – Tracing the Temporal in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones
Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones entails various time-discourses which the following will trace: (I) The Temporal Trace as Form and Imprint by which the text itself leaves an iconic mark of the configuration of space into the novel’s narrative time. (II) The Temporal Trace as Content and Stream through which the text accounts for the fact that it is not bound to any human notion of time. And, finally, (III) The Temporal Trace as Experience which aims…
The Idea of Notational Ekphrasis in Words and Music
This chapter will focus on the presence of musical notation in literary texts, their aesthetic, (inter-)medial presence and potentialities, in paradigmatic Modern short stories such as Katherine Mansfield’s “The Wind Blows” (1915), Virginia Woolf’s “The String Quartet” (1921) and Vladimir Nabokov’s “Music” (1932). What these stories share is a perception of music as sonorous moving forms, symbolic imagery or seemingly ‘dancing’ musical notation o…
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