Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature: Musical Modernism

ISBN-13: 9780367593476 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 296 str.

Katherine O'Callaghan

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This book explores the role of music as a source of inspiration and provocation for modernist writers. Considering modernist literature within a broad political, postcolonial, and internationalist context, it is an important intervention in the field of Words and Music studies. It expands the critical debate to include lesser-known writers along

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Table of Contents

　

1. Woolf Rewriting Wagner: The Waves and Der Ring Des Nibelungen

Emma Sutton, University of St Andrews, UK

2. "That’s the Music of the Future": Joyce, Modernism and the "Old Irish Tonality"

Katherine O’Callaghan, Mount Holyoke College, USA

3. The Ring, The Waves and the Wake: Eternal Recurrence in Wagner, Woolf and Joyce

Jamie McGregor, Rhodes University, South Africa

4. Musicality in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade's End: Towards Modernity

Isabelle Brasme, University of Nîmes (Unîmes) and EMMA (Université Paul Valéry Monptellier 3) France

5. The (R)evolution of Olive Moore: Fugue as Bridge to a New Feminist Awakening.

Renée Dickinson, Bellevue College, USA

6. A Strict Arrangement: Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus, and the Kretzschmar Lectures

Maria Kager, Utrecht University, Netherlands

7. Sounding Bodies: Eroticized Music-Making in Proust’s À la Recherche

Axel Englund, Stockholm University, Sweden

8. Rabindranath Tagore and Musical Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Bengal Suddhaseel Sen, Presidency College, Kolkata, India

9. Words for Music Perhaps: W. B. Yeats, Music and Meaninglessness.

Adrian Paterson, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

10. "The way to learn the music of verse is to listen to it": Ezra Pound’s The Pisan Cantos and the "Sequence of the Musical Phrase"

Katherine Firth, La Trobe University, Australia

11. Imagism’s Musical Sympathies: Amy Lowell and Claude Debussy

Debora Van Durme, Ghent University, Belgium

12. Expansive Musical Modernism in William Carlos Williams, Steve Reich and Tom Leonard

Peter Clandfield, Independent Scholar, Ontario, Canada

13. The Sudden Thing of Being No One: Robert Creeley’s Rhythm Changes

Steven Toussaint, University of Wellington, New Zealand

　

14. "With all that Tutti and Continuo": Musicality and Temporality in Djuna Barnes’ The Antiphon

Caroline Knighton, Birkbeck, University of London.

15. "The Blues Always Been Here": African American Music and Black Modernism in August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Michael Borshuk, Texas Tech Univ. USA.

16. The Musicalization of Samuel Beckett

Thomas Mansell, London Consortium

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Katherine O'Callaghan is Visiting Lecturer in the Department of English at Mount Holyoke College, USA.