Rasheed Tazudeen

Bio

Rasheed Tazudeen is a Lecturer in English at Yale University. He has published on Woolf, Joyce, Darwin, and Lewis Carroll, and is currently at work on two manuscripts: Modernism’s Nonhuman Worlds: Animal Metaphor and the Entanglements of Being and Object Ecologies: Modernism’s Material Aesthetics.

Contributions

Béla Bartók’s Dissonant Ecologies: Nonhuman Sound in Bluebeard’s Castle

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Mine is the realm of dissonances. —Béla Bartók, letter to Stefi Geyer, September 6, 1907 [1] They are estranged from that with which they have most constant intercourse. —Heraclitus, “Fragment 93” [2] In a 1907 letter to Stefi Geyer (the young violinist for whom he wrote the First Violin Concerto), Bartók writes: “It’s not the body that’s mortal and the soul that’s immortal, but the other way around. The soul is transitory and the body (that is, matter) is everlasting! . . . The body, as matter...

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