The Performative Dimension of a Literary Text-Concert

Svitlana MACENKA

Makale detayları

The Performative Dimension of a Literary Text-Concert

Yazarlar:

Svitlana MACENKA

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur 2021 Vol. Issue 45, pp.51-73

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2021

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000847842

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2619-9890

Özet:

 

Using the premises of literary intermediality theory, the paper dwells on the particular performability of a literary text, in which a concert is not only described but also played out as a distinct socially significant phenomenon of contemporary culture.  It  is  because  of  the  performative  dimension,  which  is  an  essential  medium  between  actual  musical  events  and  their  verbal  rendition,  between  the  embodiment  of  music  in  movements,  gestures,  sounds  of  instruments,  program  pieces,  and  its  presentation  in  interpretations  that  are  historically  determined  and  motivated  by  personal  poetologies  of  authors, that such texts could be treated as texts-concerts. It is stated that a literary text-concert thematizes and describes a concert event using specific names of musical pieces and their performers, drawing attention to the performing style and individual manner of expression used by musicians as well as the sound of musical instruments while interpreting specific musical compositions. The text itself is conceptualized as a concert, i.e., the plot may be framed by a concert event or be presented as a special concert event with a detailed description of the conditions of the performance (acoustic space, the drama, timing, atmosphere, acoustic background, relevant auditory habits, and performative and ritualistic elements of the concert) and their impact on the listener. Due to particular structural technologies aimed at the most adequate and vocal rendering of the musical performance, a text of this type is played out as a concert that exceeds the limits of representation and  displays  such  dimensions  as  embodiment,  mediality,  or  eventfulness.  In  a  metaphorical  sense,  the  text  is  a  stage  on  which the musical performance plays out, which is often combined with the discourse on the author’s creative becoming. Since a text-concert is constituted through intermedial links with music, it has the potential of revealing its own mediality, showing the things it talks about, and in such a way transcending the limits of its content. The analysis is based on Julio Cortazar’s essay Around the Piano with Thelonius Monk and Friedrich Christian Delius’s The Future of Beauty.

Makale detayları

The Performative Dimension of a Literary Text-Concert

Yazarlar: Svitlana MACENKA

Yayıncı: Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar: Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi: Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur 2021 Vol. Issue 45, pp.51-73

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 6/2021

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2000847842

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 2619-9890

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Svitlana MACENKA

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur 2021 Vol. Issue 45, pp.51-73

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2021

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000847842

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2619-9890