Art and music in the fiction of Helen Weinzweig / by Noreen Ivancic.

Critics Northrop Frye and, more recently, Linda Hutcheon have commented tellingly on
\nthe relationships that exist among Canadian art, music and literature. Perhaps surprisingly, aside
\nfrom an incidental comment here and a descriptive comment there, Canadian criticism has been
\nvery reluctant to investigate this promising complex of ideas. The training in music, for
\nexarnple, of such writers as Charles G. D. Roberts, Robert Finch and Sinclair Ross has usually
\nbeen treated as a matter ofbiographical fact rather than as something which might be of
\nsignificance to their work.
\nHelen Weinzweig, a Canadian writer, has made extensive and significant use of music
\nand visual art in her fiction. It may be an informative comment on the focus of Canadian
\ncriticism that Weinzweig's published work to date ? two novels and a number of short stories -
\nremains largely unexplored, and, on the issue of her use of music and art in her work, virtually
\nignored. But a close examination of the work shows that Weinzweig uses both music and art in
\nan integral way not merely to indicate the broad cultural spectrum from which she can draw to
\nenrich the texture of her work, but also in a structural way to link pattern and meaning. For the
\nmost part rejecting conventional fictional structures, Weinzweig employs music and art, under
\nthe integrating power of memory, in order to offer her readers more fully charged, alternative
\nviews of life.
\nThis thesis proposes to examine Weinzweig?s use of allusions and structures from music
\nand art, in concert with the power of memory, in an effort to explicate the peculiar power of her
\nprose fiction. Emphasis in the thesis will be on the short stories although there will be some
\ndiscussion of the novels as well. The thesis will be organized in the following way. Following a
\nbrief introduction, chapter one will examine Weinzweig's use ofvisual art and artists in the
\nstories; chapter two will explore musical allusions and structures in the stories and in the novel,
\nBasic Black with Pearls?, a brief conclusion will be provided.

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