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9780773451353

The Influence of Music on American Literature Since 1890: A History of Aesthetic Counterpoint

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  • ISBN13:

    9780773451353

  • ISBN10:

    0773451358

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-10-01
  • Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
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Summary

Music and literature are the so-called "sister arts," and since around 1890, many of the American writers who use music in their works have created their hybrid, musico-literary worlds by focusing on two or three of the following musical elements: counterpoint, Wagnerian music dramas, and player pianos. This work explores the changing American discourse as a contrapuntal rope consisting of three symbolic elements/threads interacting in a unique way in the periods of realism/naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism.

Author Biography

Dr.Kiyoko Magome is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Tsukuba,Japan. She received her Ph.D. in Literature and Criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Musico-Literary, Socio-Aesthetic Studies and the Contrapuntal History of American Literature since 1890p. 5
Musico-Literary Studiesp. 5
Musico-Literary, Socio-Aesthetic Studiesp. 9
Contrapuntal History of American Musico-Literary, Socio-Aesthetic Discourse since 1890p. 16
American Realist/Naturalist Literature and European Romantic Music: The Process of Awakeningp. 33
Henry James and Mark Twain: Between America and Europep. 38
Harold Frederic: Frederic Chopin - George Sand Devicep. 44
Kate Chopin: Everlasting Awakening Power of Frederic Chopin - Richard Wagner Musicp. 48
Willa Cather: From Musico-Literary Realism/Naturalism to Modernismp. 56
Modernist Musico-Literary Discourse of Centrifugal and Centripetal Power: The Image of Constellationsp. 81
Thomas Mann: Writing Doktor Faustus in Californiap. 85
Carson McCullers: Two Years of Counterpoint - 1940 and 1941p. 94
T. S. Eliot and Vladimir Nabokov: Confining Fragments to Quartetsp. 116
Musico-Cybernetic Novels after World War II: Obsession with the Image of Player Pianosp. 129
William Gaddis: Expanding Auditory Discoursep. 132
Kurt Vonnegut: Cybernetic, Contrapuntal Presentation of Time and Spacep. 153
Philip K. Dick: Metamorphosing Player Pianosp. 162
Musico-Genetic Novels since the 1950s: Counterpoint in the Image of the DNA Double-Helixp. 179
John Barth: Floating Contrapuntal Narratives as Musico-Genetic Variationsp. 183
Jerzy Kosinski: Obsession with Musico-Genetic Surrogate Parentsp. 195
Richard Powers: Musico-Genetic, Encyclopedic Counterpoint "with Feeling"p. 204
Greg Bear: Musico-Genetic Science Fictionp. 215
Conclusion: The Contrapuntal History of American Literature from the Present to the Futurep. 227
Notesp. 239
Bibliographyp. 263
Indexp. 275
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