What is it about?
This article recovers the musical and dramatic contexts for Bowen's allusions to the story of Pelleas and Melisande in her 1929 novel The Last September. These allusions disclose aspects of The Last September that deflect attention from the political themes that preoccupy most readings of this work.
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Why is it important?
The article discusses Bowen together with Maeterlinck and now-obscure musical sources, notably Alma Goetz. It also uses the Bowen archive at the University of Texas to show how she highlighted the Pelleas and Melisande theme during revision.
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This page is a summary of: Elizabeth Bowen’s Mélisande, Texas Studies in Literature & Language, December 2017, University of Texas Press,
DOI: 10.7560/tsll59402.
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