The Language of Music
Helen Garner’s *The Children’s Bach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8892291 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bill Ashcroft (0000-0002-2447-2710, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Publication date | 1990-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-9697 • E-ISSN: 1837-6479 |
| Publisher | Australian Literary Studies (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.20314/als.9279f600e0 |
| OpenAlex | W2493586170 |
| Language | EN |
All Garner's novels and stories present female experience as a discourse of the possible rather than a narrative of simple conflict although this possibility always hinges on the dialectical resolution of contradictions. The Children's Bach focusses this discourse, along with its view of love and power, on women's alienation from language. The principal vehicle for this focus is the characters' varying experience of music, which itself offers a way of exploring the complex issue of a gender related experience of language
Aesthetics · Alienation · Art · Dialectic · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Linguistics · Narrative · Political science · Power (physics · Principal (computer security · Sociology · Computer Science · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Law · Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics · Philosophy · Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |