‘For Evermore’: An Examination of Musical Ekphrasesof Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”
This article analyses the transfer of poetic language into music, focusing on Edgar Allan Poe’s celebrated poem “The Raven” (1845). After a theoretical study on poetic language and theoretical questions regarding transmediation, I look into different pieces of instrumental music directly inspired by...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Sevilla (US) |
| Repositorio: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:idus.us.es:11441/151517 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/11441/151517 https://doi.org/10.12795/REN.2023.i27.4 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | E. A. Poe Music Poetry Transmediation Musical ekphrasis Uncanny Música Poesía Transmediación Écfrasis musical Siniestro |
| Sumario: | This article analyses the transfer of poetic language into music, focusing on Edgar Allan Poe’s celebrated poem “The Raven” (1845). After a theoretical study on poetic language and theoretical questions regarding transmediation, I look into different pieces of instrumental music directly inspired by Poe’s lines. To this end, I draw on ground-breaking research regarding media transformation by authors such as Lars Elleström, whose work provides the theoretical framework, and, most especially, Siglind Bruhn, who has written about the relation between poetry and music, and who coined the term “musical ekphrasis”. Finally, I argue that these composers transmediate Poe’s “The Raven” by using musical devices similar to those employed by Poe in his poem. Particularly important for this analysis will be compulsive repetition and variation as strategies of the musicalekphrasis, and the re-presentation of the uncanny in music. |
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