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Thunder returning: a novel in the leitmotiv manner

 

Jacket front illustration is an abstract image suggestive of lightning.

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Title:
Thunder returning: a novel in the leitmotiv manner
Identifier:
PR9320.9.M5T481961
Permalink:
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Type:
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Notes:
Antony Maitland was the jacket designer. Summary: The plot concerns two women pregnant by the husband of one of them. This novel is part of a trilogy working out Wagnerian leitmotif structure using a triangular love affair plot. Second in the trilogy after Latticed Echoes, Thunder Returning represents Mittelholzer's continuing interest in experimentation. In his foreword, he expresses hope "that readers would be familiar with the leitmotiv as used in Wagner's operas, especially the Ring", but differentiates his use of the device from Wagner's. (The leitmotiv in Wagner's music is a recurrent signature musical figure that is associated with various characters and situations.) Mittelholzer argues here that his use of the device is as a "symbol adjunct" which is not part of the narrative.


Rights:
Copyright not evaluated
Access:
Public access

Subject--Topic:
Book jackets

Author:
Mittelhölzer, Edgar
Contributor:
Maitland, Antony

Publisher:
Secker & Warburg
Place of Publication:
London (England)
Date of Publication:
1961

Form:
Illustrated works
Color:
Color

Collection Information


Collection:
H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
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Repository:
University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
Repository Collection Type:
Rare Books
Repository Location:
Richard J. Daley Library