When Is a Text Like Music?
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This essay explores interart analogies as they apply to readers’ endeavors to deal with musical references in literary works. The effect of reference to music in a text is first examined. As a means of juxtaposing distinct art forms in the mind of the reader, reference may lead to an integration of certain features of a musical object within a literary text. The establishment of similarities and the challenges of difference when comparing musical and narrative forms are considered. Using the particular case of Fugue, a novel by Roger Laporte, we see how a ‘blended’ space which inherits features from both the textual and the musical domains may be constructed and lead a reader to conceptualize a ‘literary fugue’.