The intermedial features of Kazuo Ishiguro’s “musical short story” Nocturne
... atmosphere inherent to the nocturne, etc.), which, on the one hand, allow them to be identified with similar musical compositions, and on the other hand, reveal the literary and artistic originality of the “musical story” as such. The problem of musical intermediality and the specifics of its verbal organization in Ishiguro’s short story Nocturne allow for the characterization of a broader range of techniques for conveying the “musicality” of the text as a genre- and structure-forming feature.
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