Phrase and Subject: Studies in Music and Literature

by Correa,Delia da Sousa

• ISBN13: 9781904713074
• ISBN10: 1904713076
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The confluence between music and literature, long hymned as sister arts, is a newly burgeoning field of critical inquiry. This innovative collection of interdisciplinary essays provides a valuable introduction to the field, mapping the contours of recent research and investigating the mutual aesthetic influence of the two arts and their common historical ground. The examination of literary works using music as an analogy for literary composition and agent of cultural value, and the consideration of musical works whose structure is derived from literary models will excite the interest of both professional scholars and students in the fields of musicology, literary studies and modern European languages.

Table of Contents

Theoretical issues	p. 11
Stances towards music as a language	p. 12
Music before the literary : or, the eventness of musical events	p. 21
Music in the philosophical imagination : deconstructing Friedrich Nietzsche's Human, all too human	p. 34
The force of music in Derrida's writing	p. 45
Generic alliances	p. 59
Music and realism : Samuel Richardson, Italian Opera, and English Oratorio	p. 60
Saving the ordinary : Beethoven's 'ghost' trio and the wheel of history	p. 73
Musical scores and literary form in modernism : Ezra pound's Pisan Cantos and Samuel Beckett's Wat	p. 87
The gendered text	p. 99
Revoicing Rousseau : Stael's Corinne and the song of the south	p. 100
The dear dead past : the piano in Victorian and Edwardian poetry	p. 112
Music and Kate Chopin's The awakening	p. 125
Narratives of masculinity and femininity : two Schumann song cycles	p. 135
Narrative modes	p. 147
The concert as a literary genre : Berlioz's Lelio	p. 148
Literature as Deja vu? : the third movement of Gustav Mahler's first symphony	p. 153
Fugue or music drama? : symmetry, counterpoint, and Leitmotif in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov	p. 167
Benjamin Britten and Wilfred Owen : an intertextual reading of the War Requieum	p. 178
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