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"No trace of presence": Tchaikovsky and the sixth in Forster's Maurice.
From: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
Date: 20030301
Author:Keeling, Bret L.
Tchaikovsky and his Sixth Symphony have two distinct functions in E.M. Forster's Maurice. The composer and composition serve as a strategy of disclosure for Clive Durham as he woos Maurice Hall, and may provide evidence of the ways that music, like literature, can take part in individual and social formations.
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Alan Sinfield suggests that knowledge of Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's homosexuality serves "as a test of queer knowledge" in E.M. Forster's Maurice (145). Describing the four male characters in the novel, Sinfield declares that Risley, ...
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