Abstract
Magome analyzes musical elements in McCullers’ The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, especially the important image of a string quartet lurking beneath the famous fugal structure of the novel. Focusing on the relationship between the novel and her early short story “Court in the West Eighties” as musico-literary variations, the chapter also explores why McCullers almost unconsciously but repeatedly used the image of a string quartet at that time. Magome finally compares McCullers’ early works with T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets and Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus in terms of the image of a string quartet, examining a much larger musico-literary, socio-historical context during World War II.
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