Previously published with the title The Writer’s Fugue: Musicalization, Trauma and Subjectivity in the Literature of Modernity, Third Edition

A comparative exploration of ideas of creativity, humanity, alienation in modernity, the 'divided self ' and Bakhtin's social life of discourse, and dialogism, now and through the history of fugue and polyphony in music, psychology, medicine, poetry and the novel, with chapters on migrations and adaptations of musical fugue in (now) canonical literary works by authors and poets in modernity: Thomas de Quincey, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Paul Celan, and Sylvia Plath; with studies of present day exiled and émigré poets including expat Australian poet Christopher Barnett in France; and stateless Kurdish author Behrouz Boochani on Manus Island. Chapter 1 substantially updates and expands Ruth Skilbeck's essay 'Exiled Writers, Human Rights, and Social Advocacy Movements in Australia: A Critical Fugal Analysis" in Cultural Studies of Rights: Critical Articulations (Routledge, 2014) "[what] Skilbeck calls "fugal writing"... restores the rights of survival and dignity" John Ngyuet Erni, Communication and Critical Cultural Studies

ISBN: 9780648245490 Paperback (2018)

This book is also published with the title The Writer’s Fugue: Musicalization, Trauma and Subjectivity in the Literature of Modernity, Third Edition

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