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The Art, Literature and Music of Solitude
The Art, Literature and Music of Solitude
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The themes include exile (expulsion from a community), ecstasy (getting 'out of oneself') and enstasy (being comfortable
oneself), to the Romantic idea of the artist as solitary. There is work on aloneness in and through nature, especially the importance of natural settings for positive experiences of solitude. A central theme is alienation and its emotions, with the idea of loneliness and the rejected self being a more modern experience. The book explores modernism and postmodernism as presenting new forms of solitude in the twentieth century, and how, more recently, there have been attempts to 'recover' the self, through therapeutic uses of the arts. All of these types and experiences of aloneness are described through the lenses of artistic, literary and musical forms of expression, as aloneness is not only
and
through these art forms, but is in many ways
through these art forms.