Phrase and Subject: Studies in Music and Literature

by Delia da Sousa Correa

Overview

The confluence between music and literature, long hymned as sister arts, is a newly burgeoning field of critical inquiry. This innovative collection of interdisciplinary essays provides a valuable introduction to the field, mapping the contours of recent research and investigating the mutual aesthetic influence of the two arts and their common historical ground. The examination of literary works using music as an analogy for literary composition and agent of cultural value, and the consideration of musical works whose structure is derived from literary models will excite the interest of both professional scholars and students in the fields of musicology, literary studies and modern European languages. (Legenda 2006) Delia da Sousa Correa is Lecturer in Literature at The Open University. She is the author of George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture (2002) and editor of

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351554220
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/05/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Delia da Sousa Correa

Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Theoretical Issues 1. Stances towards Music as a Language 2. Music before the Literary: Or, the Eventness of Musical Events 3. Music in the Philosophical Imagination: Deconstructing Friedrich Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human 4. The Force of Music in Derrida's Writing Part II: Generic Alliances 5. Music and Realism: Samuel Richardson, Italian Opera, and English Oratorio 6. Saving the Ordinary: Beethoven's 'Ghost' Trio and the Wheel of History 7. Musical Scores and Literary Form in Modernism: Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos and Samuel Beckett's Watt Part III: The Gendered Text 8. Revoicing Rousseau: Staël’s Corinne and the Song of the South 9. The Dear Dead Past: The Piano in Victorian and Edwardian Poetry 10. Music and Kate Chopin's The Awakening 11. Narratives of Masculinity and Femininity: Two Schumann Song Cycles Part IV: Narrative Modes 12. The Concert as a Literary Genre: Berlioz’s Lélio 13. Literature as DEx00E9;jà vu? The Third Movement of Gustav Mahler's First Symphony 14. Fugue or Music Drama? Symmetry, Counterpoint, and Leitmotif in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov 15. Benjamin Britten and Wilfred Owen: An Intertextual Reading of the War Requiem