Phrase and Subject: Studies in Music and Literature

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: Stael'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 Lelio
• 13. Literature as DEx00E9;ja 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