In this Book
- Expectation: A Francesca Fruscella Mystery
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
summary
On the surface a murder mystery—a detective’s search for the killer of five people in Denver—Expectation is also, among other things, a meditation on the relationship between language and music.
In his newest novel, Jeffrey DeShell draws on the musical innovations of Arnold Schoenberg—by turns traditional, serial, and atonal—to inform his grammar and language. Moving progressively through specific Schoenberg compositions, DeShell complicates the surface of his text into lyrical derivatives, all the while drawing us into a murder mystery like no other as Detective Francisca Fruscella pursues both the killer and her own complicated personal history.
By turns rapturous, rigorous, and gripping, Expectation is a thriller of another kind—and a bold venture to the limits of the mystery genre and language itself.
In his newest novel, Jeffrey DeShell draws on the musical innovations of Arnold Schoenberg—by turns traditional, serial, and atonal—to inform his grammar and language. Moving progressively through specific Schoenberg compositions, DeShell complicates the surface of his text into lyrical derivatives, all the while drawing us into a murder mystery like no other as Detective Francisca Fruscella pursues both the killer and her own complicated personal history.
By turns rapturous, rigorous, and gripping, Expectation is a thriller of another kind—and a bold venture to the limits of the mystery genre and language itself.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Chapter 2. Vier Lieder op. 2
- pp. 7-18
- Chapter 4. Verklärte Nacht op. 4
- pp. 23-48
- Chapter 6. Erwartung Monodram op. 17
- pp. 53-72
- Note to Readers
- pp. 103-116
Additional Information
ISBN
9781573668439
Related ISBN(s)
9781573661751
MARC Record
OCLC
861200351
Pages
115
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No