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The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature

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  • Editor: Durkin, Rachael

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Contents

  • PART IQuestioning the Universal
  • 1. The Universal: Now You See It, Now You Don’t
  • Peter Dayan
  • 2. Music, Literature, and the Aesthetics of Eugenics
  • Ryan Weber
  • 3. ‘That is the music which makes men mad’: Hungarian Nervous Music in Fin-de-Siècle Gay Literature
  • Zsolt Bojti
  • 4. Music and Gender Roles in Hector Berlioz’s Euphonia and George Sand’s Le Dernier Amour
  • Nina Rolland
  • 5. Re-writing Music Lyrics as Resistant Poetry in Tyehima Jess’s Olio and Morgan Parker’s There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
  • Alexandra Reznik
  • 6. On Themes and Variations: Music and Literature in Poststructuralism
  • Sarah Hickmott
  • 7. Towards Spirit: Samuel Beckett’s Phenomenology of Music
  • Helen Bailey
  • 8. Music in Postcolonial Literature
  • Christin Hoene
  • PART IIOpera and Literature
  • 9. Modern Fiction and Opera: Representing Interiority
  • Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon
  • 10. Trouble in Paradise: Colette’s Claudine s’en va (1903) and the Problem of Writing about Wagner
  • Adeline Heck
  • 11. Pushkin in the Language of Exile: Arthur Lourier’s The Feast During the Plague
  • Klára Móricz
  • 12. Dialogues with Pushkin: From Tchaikovsky to Stravinsky and The Rake’s Progress
  • Philip Ross Bullock
  • 13. Of Sailors and Divas: Jean Cocteau’s and Francis Poulenc’s La Voix humaine
  • Steven Huebner
  • 14. Another Turn of the Screw: Enigma in Benjamin Britten and Henry James
  • Lawrence Kramer
  • 15. ‘Tenderness of an England Long Past’: Opera, Elegy, and the Music of Alan Hollinghurst
  • Irene Morra
  • PART IIIMusical Form, Literary Form
  • 16. Forming Time: Music, Literature, and Modernity
  • Jessie Fillerup
  • 17. Formal Innovations and The Idea of Music in French Poetry, 1850-1900
  • David Evans
  • 18. Music and the Illusions of Form
  • Peter Nelson
  • 19. Setting Music to Music: Mallarmé, Boulez, and the Transformation of Thought
  • Joanna Spangenberg
  • 20. Music Without Music – Kurt Schwitters’s Ursonate
  • Gwendolen Webster
  • 21. Form and Music in Modern Chinese Poetry
  • He Qianwei
  • 22. Variation Form in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction and Nonfiction
  • Elicia Clements
  • 23. Sound and Sense Interwoven: Aldous Huxley’s Music of Ideas
  • Akos Farkas and Gabor Bodnar
  • 24. Music as Content, Form, and Metaphor in Hermann Hesse’s Castalian Utopia
  • Siglind Bruhn
  • 25. Coherence and Counterpoint: Music in the Modern Short Story
  • Thomas Gurke
  • 26. The Muses of Noigandres: Music and Form in Brazilian Concrete Poetry
  • João Pedro Cachopo
  • PART IVPopular Music and Literature
  • 27. ‘Booklovers’? Popular Music and the Literary Canon
  • Caroline Ardrey
  • 28. Jazz Fiction in Global Context: Between Racial Politics and Improvisational Poetics
  • Eric Prieto
  • 29. Literary Beethovens: Convention, Difference, and Cultural Memory
  • Nathan Waddell
  • 30. Dusty’s Answer, or, Pop Song for Ali Smith
  • Stephen Benson
  • 31. Call-and-Response: Black Music and Literature, from Langston Hughes to Morgan Parker
  • Christopher Lloyd
  • 32. Confessional Poetry, Confessional Pop: Gender, Race, and the Lyric Form in Modern American Writing and Music
  • Rachel Sykes
  • 33. Literary Pop: Dissecting the Creative Process Behind Maxïmo Park’s ‘Leave This Island’
  • Paul Smith
  • 34. Jawbreaker: Literary Punk and Authenticity
  • Arin Keeble
  • 35. The Devil’s Party: Metal and Literature
  • Samuel Thomas
  • 36. Setting Greek Modernist Poetry to Greek Popular Music: The Emergence of Art-Popular [Entechno Laiko] Song
  • Christina Michael
  • 37. Performing Brecht’s Paradox: Misuk as Critical Pop?
  • Heidi Hart
  • Index