Background
Wallace, Robert Kimball was born on August 2, 1944 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Walter D. and Barbara (Woolley) Wallace.
( Literary critics such as Virginia Woolf and Lionel Tril...)
Literary critics such as Virginia Woolf and Lionel Trilling had noted intuitive affinities between the art of Jane Austen and that of Mozart, but this 1983 book was the first to compare their artistic style and individual works in a comprehensive way. Extended comparisons are of course difficult because of the intrinsic differences between prose fiction and instrumental music. In Jane Austen and Mozart, Robert K. Wallace has succeeded in making illuminating comparisons of spirit and form in the work of these two artists. His book celebrates the achievements of Austen and Mozart by comparing their stylistic significance in the history of their separate arts and by offering comparisons of three Austen novels with three Mozart piano concertos. In exploring precise similarities between the two artists, Wallace shows how the art and criticism of one field can illuminate the art and criticism of another. Above all, Jane Austen and Mozart attempts to show the degree to which three masterpieces by each artist have comparable meaning and value.
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(In this interdisciplinary work, Robert K. Wallace explore...)
In this interdisciplinary work, Robert K. Wallace explores the stylistic and aesthetic affinities of English landscape painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) and American novelist Herman Melville (1819-1891), establishing Turner as a decisive influence on the creation of Melville's "Moby-Dick". Wallace begins his study by tracing the evolution of Turner's powerful aesthetic of the indistinct from his seascapes of the early 1800s. He then examines Melville's self-education in the fine arts from 1846 through 1849, a period culminating in an 1849 visit to London where Melville saw works by Turner and the Old Masters side by side. Wallace also shows how the aesthetic of Melville's first five novels evolved in direct relation to the art criticism he read in books by Hazlitt, Ruskin and Eastlake, as well as in English and American periodicals. Wallace's discussion of how Melville's knowledge of painting influenced his successive novels illustrates an important part of Melville's mental and artistic landscape. The discussion of influence culminates with three chapters devoted to the composition of "Moby-Dick", showing Turner's influence from the beginning to the end of Melville's masterpiece. The study ends with an examination of the artistic and spiritual legacies of each artist. Wallace shows how Melville and Turner lead us into comparable realms: the visible spheres of love as well as the invisible ones of fright.
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( When Emily Brontë was studying music in Brussels in 184...)
When Emily Brontë was studying music in Brussels in 1842, she was drawn into the city's appreciation of Beethoven. After her exposure to the works of the great composer, Brontë's creativity flourished and she went on to compose what was to be her only novel―Wuthering Heights. In Emily Brontë and Beethoven, Robert K. Wallace continues to work from the perspective he developed in his Jane Austen and Mozart―integrating two fields that have traditionally been kept apart. Wallace compares Brontë and Beethoven through a close examination of the Romantic traits that their works share. Innovative and stimulating, Wallace's study extends literary criticism into a new context where equilibrium, balance, proportion and symmetry serve as a fulcrum to launch the reader into a new understanding of the formal parallels, the moods and emotions that connect music and literature.
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Wallace, Robert Kimball was born on August 2, 1944 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Walter D. and Barbara (Woolley) Wallace.
Bachelor, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, 1966; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1972.
Professor of English,, Northern Kentucky U., Highland Heights, since 1972; Regents' professor, Northern Kentucky U., Highland Heights, since 1991. Fulbright lecturer U. Deusto, Bilbao, Spain, 1976-1977.
( Literary critics such as Virginia Woolf and Lionel Tril...)
( Literary critics such as Virginia Woolf and Lionel Tril...)
( When Emily Brontë was studying music in Brussels in 184...)
(In this interdisciplinary work, Robert K. Wallace explore...)
(classical pianist)
Member Modern Language Association, Melville Society.
Married Joan Ferrante, May 10, 1979.