The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Anacrusis: Upbeat
PART I: Questioning the Universal
	1 The Universal: Now You See It, Now You Don’t
	2 Music, Literature, and the Aesthetics of Eugenics
	3 ‘That
is the Music Which Makes Men Mad’: Hungarian Nervous
	4 Music and Gender Roles in Hector Berlioz’s Euphonia and George Sand’s Le Dernier Amour
	5 Re-Writing Music Lyrics as Resistant Poetry in Tyehimba Jess’s Olio and Morgan Parker’s There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
	6 On Themes and Variations: Music and Literature in Poststructuralism
	7 Towards Spirit: Samuel Beckett’s Phenomenology of Music
	8 Music in Postcolonial Literature
PART II: Opera and Literature
	9 Modern Fiction and Opera: Representing Interiority
	10 Trouble in Paradise: Colette’s Claudine s’en va ( 1903) and the Problem of Writing about Wagner
	11 Pushkin in the Language of Exile: Arthur Lourié’s Feast During the Plague
	12 Dialogues with Pushkin: From Tchaikovsky to Stravinsky and The Rake’s Progress
	13 Of Sailors and Divas: Jean Cocteau’s and Francis Poulenc’s La Voix humaine
	14 Another Turn of the Screw: Enigma in Benjamin Britten and Henry James
	15 ‘Tendernesses
of an England Long Past’: Opera, Elegy, and the Music
of Alan Hollinghurst
PART III: Musical Form, Literary Form
	16 Forming Time: Music, Literature, and Modernity
	17 Formal Innovations and the Idea of Music in French Poetry, 1850–1900
	18 Music and the Illusions of Form
	19 Setting Music to Music: Mallarmé, Boulez and the Transformation of Thought
	20 Music Without Music: Kurt Schwitters’s Ursonate
	21 Form and Music in Modern Chinese Poetry
	22 Variation Form in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction and Nonfiction
	23 Sound and Sense Interwoven: Aldous Huxley’s Music of Ideas
	24 Music as Content, Form, and Metaphor in Hermann Hesse’s Castalian Utopia
	25 Coherence and Counterpoint: Music in the Modern Short Story
	26 The Muses of Noigandres: Music and Form in Brazilian Concrete Poetry
PART IV: Popular Music and Literature
	27 ‘Booklovers’?
Popular Music and the Literary Canon
	28 Jazz Fiction in Global Context: Between Racial Politics and Improvisational Poetics
	29 Literary Beethovens: Convention, Difference, and Cultural Memory
	30 Dusty’s Answer, or, Pop Song for Ali Smith
	31 Call- And-Response: Black Music and Literature, from Langston Hughes to Morgan Parker
	32 Confessional Poetry, Confessional Pop: Gender, Race, and the Lyric Form in Modern American Writing and Music
	33 Literary Pop: Dissecting the Creative Process Behind Maxïmo Park’s
	34 Jawbreaker: Literary Punk and Authenticity
	35 The Devil’s Party: Metal and Literature
	36 Setting Greek Modernist Poetry to Greek Popular Music: The Emergence of Art-Popular [Entechno Laiko] Song
	37 Performing Brecht’s Paradox: Misuk as Critical Pop?
Index