Integrating Music with Fiction: Ian McEwan’s Libretto for Michael Berkeley’s Opera For You

• Authors: Popiel Magdalena
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article undertakes to prove that Ian McEwan is an ambitious and versatile writer who is not afraid of experimenting with forms which are on the borderline of literature and other arts. It presents McEwan as a literary artist having a wide professional knowledge of music. The analysis focuses on McEwan’s opera libretto For You which is a problematic work for any literary analysis as, being a multimedia narrative text type, it stands on the borderland between literature and music. The article analyses the interdependence of these two spheres considering the libretto as a complex artistic text – which refers to music at various interpretation levels: the language, style, plot and construction – and sheds new light on the narrative complexities of the text/music interaction.

Keywords

EN

Michael Berkeley; Ian McEwan; literature; opera; libretto

• Publisher: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 22/1
• Pages: 45-56

Contributors

author

Popiel Magdalena

• University of Warsaw

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