Books by Joseph Acquisto

This book is about reading Proust's novel via philosophical and musicological approaches to "modern" listening.

Examines the many ways in which the castaway, particularly in the form of engagement with Robinson Crusoe, has been reinterpreted and appropriated in nineteenth through twenty-first century French literature.

Offers a study of the ways in which Baudelaire, Mallarme, Ghil, and Royere question the nature and function of the lyric through a set of intertextual and cultural contexts. This book addresses the consequences of choosing music as a site of dialogue with poetry.