Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature

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.

List of contents

PART I
Questioning the Universal
1. The Universal: Now You See It, Now You Don’t
Peter Dayan
2. Music, Literature, and the Aesthetics of Eugenics
Ryan Weber
3. ‘That is the music which makes men mad’: Hungarian Nervous Music in Fin-de-Siècle Gay Literature
Zsolt Bojti
4. Music and Gender Roles in Hector Berlioz’s Euphonia and George Sand’s Le Dernier Amour
Nina Rolland
5. Re-writing Music Lyrics as Resistant Poetry in Tyehima Jess’s Olio and Morgan Parker’s There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
Alexandra Reznik
6. On Themes and Variations: Music and Literature in Poststructuralism
Sarah Hickmott
7. Towards Spirit: Samuel Beckett’s Phenomenology of Music
Helen Bailey
8. Music in Postcolonial Literature
Christin Hoene
PART II
Opera and Literature
9. Modern Fiction and Opera: Representing Interiority
Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon
10. Trouble in Paradise: Colette’s Claudine s’en va (1903) and the Problem of Writing about Wagner
Adeline Heck
11. Pushkin in the Language of Exile: Arthur Lourier’s The Feast During the Plague
Klára Móricz
12. Dialogues with Pushkin: From Tchaikovsky to Stravinsky and The Rake’s Progress
Philip Ross Bullock
13. Of Sailors and Divas: Jean Cocteau’s and Francis Poulenc’s La Voix humaine
Steven Huebner
14. Another Turn of the Screw: Enigma in Benjamin Britten and Henry James
Lawrence Kramer
15. ‘Tenderness of an England Long Past’: Opera, Elegy, and the Music of Alan Hollinghurst
Irene Morra
PART III
Musical Form, Literary Form
16. Forming Time: Music, Literature, and Modernity
Jessie Fillerup
17. Formal Innovations and The Idea of Music in French Poetry, 1850-1900
David Evans
18. Music and the Illusions of Form
Peter Nelson
19. Setting Music to Music: Mallarmé, Boulez, and the Transformation of Thought
Joanna Spangenberg
20. Music Without Music – Kurt Schwitters’s Ursonate
Gwendolen Webster
21. Form and Music in Modern Chinese Poetry
He Qianwei
22. Variation Form in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction and Nonfiction
Elicia Clements
23. Sound and Sense Interwoven: Aldous Huxley’s Music of Ideas
Akos Farkas and Gabor Bodnar
24. Music as Content, Form, and Metaphor in Hermann Hesse’s Castalian Utopia
Siglind Bruhn
25. Coherence and Counterpoint: Music in the Modern Short Story
Thomas Gurke
26. The Muses of Noigandres: Music and Form in Brazilian Concrete Poetry
João Pedro Cachopo
PART IV
Popular Music and Literature
27. ‘Booklovers’? Popular Music and the Literary Canon
Caroline Ardrey
28. Jazz Fiction in Global Context: Between Racial Politics and Improvisational Poetics
Eric Prieto
29. Literary Beethovens: Convention, Difference, and Cultural Memory
Nathan Waddell
30. Dusty’s Answer, or, Pop Song for Ali Smith
Stephen Benson
31. Call-and-Response: Black Music and Literature, from Langston Hughes to Morgan Parker
Christopher Lloyd
32. Confessional Poetry, Confessional Pop: Gender, Race, and the Lyric Form in Modern American Writing and Music
Rachel Sykes
33. Literary Pop: Dissecting the Creative Process Behind Maxïmo Park’s ‘Leave This Island’
Paul Smith
34. Jawbreaker: Literary Punk and Authenticity
Arin Keeble
35. The Devil’s Party: Metal and Literature
Samuel Thomas
36. Setting Greek Modernist Poetry to Greek Popular Music: The Emergence of Art-Popular [Entechno Laiko] Song
Christina Michael
37. Performing Brecht’s Paradox: Misuk as Critical Pop?
Heidi Hart
Index

About the author

Rachael Durkin is Senior Lecturer in Music in the Department of Humanities at Northumbria University.
Peter Dayan is Honorary Professorial Fellow in Word and Music Studies at the University of Edinburgh. From 2014 to 2019, he was also Obel Visiting Professor at the University of Aalborg in Denmark.
Axel Englund is Professor of Literature and Wallenberg Academy Fellow in the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University.
Katharina Clausius is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Intermedial Studies in the Département de littératures et de langues du monde at the Université de Montréal.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Rachael (Edinburgh Napier University Durkin
• Assisted by: Rachael Durkin (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032232874
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3223287-4
• No. of pages: 442
• Series: Routledge Music Companions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Music, MUSIC / General, MUSIC / Reference, Literary studies: general