Text As Muse, Muse As Text
Janáček, Kamila, and the Role of Fantasy in Musical Creativity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6033036 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adele Tutter (0000-0002-8621-0871, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 407-450 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American imago (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0065-860X • E-ISSN: 1085-7931 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/aim.2015.0021 |
| OpenAlex | W2209907310 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
The essay provides a detailed reading and analysis of Leoš Janáček’s letters to his late-life muse, Kamila Stösslová. By placing the letters alongside the literary texts on which Janáček based his important late works, it provides insight into the tangle of emotions and conflicts that he organized within the rubric of fantasy. Janáček’s muse was also “composed”: the contours of the person he loved and his relationship to her were not only rooted in fantasy but also mapped onto the characterizations and narratives specified in the works of literature he chose to set to music. The author proposes that cultural fantasy exists in continual dynamic interaction with individual unconscious fantasy, within which it is absorbed, incorporated, and re-expressed in new works of art
Art · Close reading · Creativity · Fantasy · Linguistics · Literature · Musical · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process) · Rubric · Unconscious mind · Education, Psychology, and Social Research · European Cultural and National Identity · Philosophy · Psychology · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |