The 12 new essays in this volume explore the relationship between text and music in Alban Berg's works. The book examines the biographical issues that made such expressive choices attractive to the composer, and explores ways in which works not involving explicit verbal texts create signification, allusion, and reference.

Nearly everyone who addresses T.S. Eliot's imaginative and critical work must acknowledge the importance of music in thematic and formal terms. This volume explores this aspect of his work from a number of perspectives.

This text investigates several themes about music's relationship to the literary compositions of James Joyce: music as a condition to which Joyce aspired; music theory as a useful way of reading his works; and musical compositions inspired by or connected with him.

This work investigates the connections between Nabokov's output and the fields of painting, music and ballet.

The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of his lyre and voice. Over time, the Orphic theme has come to indicate the power of music to unsettle, subvert, and ultimately bring down oppressive realities in order to liberate the soul and expand human life without limits. The liberating effect of music has been a particularly important theme in twentieth-century African American literature.

The nine original essays in Black Orpheus examines the Orphic theme in the fiction of...

The eleven contributors to this volume investigate the connections between Nabokov's output and the fields of painting, music and ballet.

Music and Modern Art adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between these two fields of creative endeavor.