Keywords
música diegética
espacio narrativo
fantasía épica
Patrick Rothfuss verbal music
diegetic music
narrative space
epic fantasy
Patrick Rothfuss
Abstract
In this essay we study verbal music, its definition and evolution to show how this type of music —from its emotional meaning— can create unique narrative spaces, in which author and reader are essential protagonists. To accomplish that, we start from the Paul Scher’s definition of verbal music, which was recently analyzed by Ivan Delazari as diegetic music. Then we explore its semantic core (emotions), its communicative process, and its poetic language. Once we have detailed which features that created space could have, we will perform an analysis of diegetic music and its unique spaces in epic fantasy novel The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss.
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