Literature and Music

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-420-1181-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature

This collection of essays centers on musical elements that authors have employed in their work, thus joining heard sounds to a visual perception of their stories. The spectrum of authors represented is a wide one, from Pound to Durrell, from Steinbeck to Cather, from Beckett to Gaines, but even more unusual is the variety of musical type represented. Classical music (the quartet, the fugue, the symphony), Jazz (the jazz riff and jazz improv) and the spiritual all appear along with folk song and so-called random “noise.”

Such diversity suggests that there are few limits when readers consider how great writers utilize musical styles and techniques. Indeed, each author seems to realize that it is not the type of music that s/he chooses to employ that is important. Rather, it is the realization that such musical elements as harmony, dissonance, tonal repetition and beat are just as important in prose composition as they are in poetry and song. The essayists have selected some works that may be considered obscure and some that are modern classics. Each one, however, has captured one of the varied ways in which words and music complement and enhance each other.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Meyer, Michael J.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Joseph Acquisto: Music, Desire, And Death in The Magic Mountain
2. Marion Fay: Making Her Work Her Life; Music in Willa Cather's Fiction
3. Thomas Fahy: The Enslaving Power of Folksong in Jean Toomer's Cane
4. Mary Catanzaro: Samuel Beckett's Pings and Murmurs: The Music of Defamiliarization and Emotional Response in Beckett’s Ping and Serialist Music Technique
5. Reine Dugas Bouton: I Gotcha! Signifying and Music in Eudora Welty's “Powerhouse”
6. Cecilia Björkén Nyberg: ”Listening, listening”: Music and Gender in Howards End, Sinister Street and Pilgrimage
7. Sarah E. Baker: Ernest J. Gaines and A Lesson Before Dying: The Literary Spiritual
8. Shirley Lutz Zivley: A Quartet That Is a Quartet: Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet
9. Peter Erspamer: Music as a Locus of Social Conflict and Social Connection in Friedrich Torberg's Süsskind von Trimberg
10. Mark Byron: A Defining Moment in Ezra Pound's Cantos: Musical Scores and Literary Texts
11. Michael J. Meyer: Harmonic Dissonance: Steinbeck's Implementation and Adaptation of Musical Techniques
12. Ana Maria Fraile Marcos: Lady Sings the Blues: Gayl Jones’ Corregidora