The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature (Routledge Music Companions)

Modern literature has always been obsessed by music. It cannot seem to think about itself without obsessing about music. And music has returned the favour. The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature addresses this relationship as a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of word and music studies. The 37 chapters within consider the partnership through four lenses—the universal, opera and literature, musical and literary forms, and popular music and literature—and touch upon diverse and pertinent themes for our modern times, ranging from misogyny to queerness, racial inequality to the claimed universality of whiteness. This Companion therefore offers an essential resource for all who try to decode the musico-literary exchange. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgments Anacrusis: Upbeat PART I: Questioning the Universal 1 The Universal: Now You See It, Now You Don’t 2 Music, Literature, and the Aesthetics of Eugenics 3 ‘That is the Music Which Makes Men Mad’: Hungarian Nervous 4 Music and Gender Roles in Hector Berlioz’s Euphonia and George Sand’s Le Dernier Amour 5 Re-Writing Music Lyrics as Resistant Poetry in Tyehimba Jess’s Olio and Morgan Parker’s There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé 6 On Themes and Variations: Music and Literature in Poststructuralism 7 Towards Spirit: Samuel Beckett’s Phenomenology of Music 8 Music in Postcolonial Literature PART II: Opera and Literature 9 Modern Fiction and Opera: Representing Interiority 10 Trouble in Paradise: Colette’s Claudine s’en va ( 1903) and the Problem of Writing about Wagner 11 Pushkin in the Language of Exile: Arthur Lourié’s Feast During the Plague 12 Dialogues with Pushkin: From Tchaikovsky to Stravinsky and The Rake’s Progress 13 Of Sailors and Divas: Jean Cocteau’s and Francis Poulenc’s La Voix humaine 14 Another Turn of the Screw: Enigma in Benjamin Britten and Henry James 15 ‘Tendernesses of an England Long Past’: Opera, Elegy, and the Music of Alan Hollinghurst PART III: Musical Form, Literary Form 16 Forming Time: Music, Literature, and Modernity 17 Formal Innovations and the Idea of Music in French Poetry, 1850–1900 18 Music and the Illusions of Form 19 Setting Music to Music: Mallarmé, Boulez and the Transformation of Thought 20 Music Without Music: Kurt Schwitters’s Ursonate 21 Form and Music in Modern Chinese Poetry 22 Variation Form in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction and Nonfiction 23 Sound and Sense Interwoven: Aldous Huxley’s Music of Ideas 24 Music as Content, Form, and Metaphor in Hermann Hesse’s Castalian Utopia 25 Coherence and Counterpoint: Music in the Modern Short Story 26 The Muses of Noigandres: Music and Form in Brazilian Concrete Poetry PART IV: Popular Music and Literature 27 ‘Booklovers’? Popular Music and the Literary Canon 28 Jazz Fiction in Global Context: Between Racial Politics and Improvisational Poetics 29 Literary Beethovens: Convention, Difference, and Cultural Memory 30 Dusty’s Answer, or, Pop Song for Ali Smith 31 Call- And-Response: Black Music and Literature, from Langston Hughes to Morgan Parker 32 Confessional Poetry, Confessional Pop: Gender, Race, and the Lyric Form in Modern American Writing and Music 33 Literary Pop: Dissecting the Creative Process Behind Maxïmo Park’s 34 Jawbreaker: Literary Punk and Authenticity 35 The Devil’s Party: Metal and Literature 36 Setting Greek Modernist Poetry to Greek Popular Music: The Emergence of Art-Popular [Entechno Laiko] Song 37 Performing Brecht’s Paradox: Misuk as Critical Pop? Index "Modern literature has always been obsessed by music. It cannot seem to think about itself without obsessing about music. And music has returned the favour. The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature addresses this relationship as a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of word and music studies. The 37 chapters within consider the partnership through four lenses-the universal, opera and literature, musical and literary forms, and popular music and literature-and touch upon diverse and pertinent themes for our modern times, ranging from misogyny to queerness, racial inequality to the claimed universality of whiteness. This Companion therefore offers an essential resource for all who try to decode the musico-literary exchange"-- Provided by publisher Modern literature has always been obsessed by music. It cannot seem to think about itself without obsessing about music. And music has returned the favour. __The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature__ addresses this relationship as a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of word and music studies. The 37 chapters within consider the partnership through four lenses—the universal, opera and literature, musical and literary forms, and popular music and literature—and touch upon diverse and pertinent themes for our modern times, ranging from misogyny to queerness, racial inequality to the claimed universality of whiteness. This __Companion__ therefore offers an essential resource for all who try to decode the musico-literary exchange. Part I. Questioning the Universal. The Universal : Now You See It, Now You Don't / Peter Dayan ; Music, Literature, and the Aesthetics of Eugenics / Ryan Weber ; 'That is the music which makes men mad' : Hungarian Nervous Music in Fin-de-Siècle Gay Literature / Zsolt Bojti ; Music and Gender Roles in Hector Berlioz's Euphonia and George Sand's Le Dernier Amour / Nina Rolland ; Re-writing Music Lyrics as Resistant Poetry in Tyehimba Jess's Olio and Morgan Parker's There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé / Alexandra Reznik ; On Themes and Variations : Music and Literature in Poststructuralism / Sarah Hickmott ; Towards Spirit : Samuel Beckett's Phenomenology of Music / Helen Bailey ; Music in Postcolonial Literature / Christin Hoene