Music and Myth in Modern Literature
- Author: Torabi, Josh
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Contents
- Prelude: Chasing the Ineffable
- 1. Schopenhauer, Wagner and Nietzsche: the Musicalization of Myth and the Mythologization of Music in The Birth of Tragedy
- Musico-Mythic Beginnings
- Schopenhauer's Metaphysics of Music in The World as Will and Representation
- Wagner: Musicalizing Nation and Myth in Beethoven
- Nietzsche's Aesthetic Models of Music and Myth in The Birth of Tragedy
- Towards a Nietzschean Configuration in the Modern Novel
- 2. Jean-Christophe: The Silent Music of the Soul
- The Genesis of Jean-Christophe
- A Born Musician: Jean-Christophe's Early Years
- The Roots of Artistic Creation: Jean-Christophe the Creator
- Music Fictionalized: Jean-Christophe's Compositions
- Divisions: Apollo, Dionysus and Franco-German Musico-Literary Relations in Jean-Christophe
- Jean-Christophe's Final Voyage: Improvisation, Italy and Late Music
- 3. Joyce's 'Gesamtkunstwerk': Performative Music and Mythic Method in Ulysses
- Approaching Music and Myth in Ulysses
- Stephen Dedalus-Dionysus: A Portrait of the Artist's Aesthetic Theory in "Proteus"
- From Apollo to Bloom: Resisting Songs in the "Sirens"
- And Behold: Leopold Could Not Live Without Stephen! The Apollonian and Dionysian,
- Side by Side in "Eumaeus"
- Home at Last: Stephen Speaks the Language of Bloom; and Bloom, Finally the Language
- of Stephen; and so the Highest Goal of Comedy and of Ulysses is Attained.
- Myth Updating in Ulysses
- 4. The Pact: Music and Myth in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus
- Demonic Origins
- Mann and Myth
- Part I: Adrian Leverkuhn's Education
- Kretzschmar's Lectures
- Part II: Why Adrian Leverkuhn Writes Such Good Music
- The Early Works
- Apocalypse Now!
- The Great Lament: Adrian Leverkuhn's Masterpiece and Faust's Redemption
- Reprise: Myth and Music as Motifs in the Modern Novel