...manifestation of the Comic Spirit, for passages such as the following, which abound : — " It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...are satisfied by it. Whether you are like Mrs Munt ["I do know when 1 like a thing and when I don't "] and tap surreptitiously when the tunes come —...

...ironic narrator, adopting a diffident, mocking tone intermingled with solemn philosophizing: "It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...can see heroes and shipwrecks in the music's flood . . ." (31). However, Forster was aware of the conflict between the autonomy and credibility of characters...

...FORSTER ,Howards End' aus dem Jahre 1910 zitiert. So bemerkt Forster zur Musik Beethovens: „It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...of Man. All sorts and conditions are satisfied by it."215. In einem dann folgenden Gespräch einer Britin mit ihren musikliebenden deutschstämmigen...

...music too, of course, as EM Forster's Bloomsburyish raptures in Howards End remind us ('It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man'). Indeed, for some writers it is precisely being empty of meaning that makes music good. Meaning limits....

...subsuming Beethoven's achievement within descriptive prose, but also of affirming in the novel's structure that "Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime...noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man" (25). As they incorporate what they define as musical effect and appreciation within literary forms,...

...listening, drawn from characters in EM Forster's Howards End. As they listen to music, Mrs. Munt taps "surreptitiously when the tunes come — of course, not so as to disturb the others," Helen sees "heroes and shipwrecks in the music's flood," Margaret "can only see the music," Tibby "is...