Classical Music and Literature

Laura Marcus argues in The Tenth Muse that literary modernism took on filmic devices. This chapter argues that it did the same with music. Newly conscious of forms, languages, systems, and somatic effects, modernist writers turned to music, particularly Wagner, as a paradigm of artistic expression. Wagner reappears in writing – especially by Joyce, Woolf, Eliot and Ford – that eschewed traditional narrative arcs and literary realism, attempting to re-interpret and re-represent human experience with attention to form and style. Reading Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway informed by Wagner’s conception of the leitmotif as an affective, temporal device, and taking into account what Tim Armstrong calls the modernist ‘preoccupation with the non-linear nature of human time’ , shows how Woolf’s characters are constructed by a complex of affects, contexts, and memories

Annual Narratives & Statistical Reports from state offices and county agents

The agent's annual report proving complete summary of all the work performed during the year. This would include but not limited to systematic records of notes of tasks completed, brief observations of general conditions observed, as well as detailed information regarding certain localities