Foreword | |
Musico-Literary, Socio-Aesthetic Studies and the Contrapuntal History of American Literature since 1890 | p. 5 |
Musico-Literary Studies | p. 5 |
Musico-Literary, Socio-Aesthetic Studies | p. 9 |
Contrapuntal History of American Musico-Literary, Socio-Aesthetic Discourse since 1890 | p. 16 |
American Realist/Naturalist Literature and European Romantic Music: The Process of Awakening | p. 33 |
Henry James and Mark Twain: Between America and Europe | p. 38 |
Harold Frederic: Frederic Chopin - George Sand Device | p. 44 |
Kate Chopin: Everlasting Awakening Power of Frederic Chopin - Richard Wagner Music | p. 48 |
Willa Cather: From Musico-Literary Realism/Naturalism to Modernism | p. 56 |
Modernist Musico-Literary Discourse of Centrifugal and Centripetal Power: The Image of Constellations | p. 81 |
Thomas Mann: Writing Doktor Faustus in California | p. 85 |
Carson McCullers: Two Years of Counterpoint - 1940 and 1941 | p. 94 |
T. S. Eliot and Vladimir Nabokov: Confining Fragments to Quartets | p. 116 |
Musico-Cybernetic Novels after World War II: Obsession with the Image of Player Pianos | p. 129 |
William Gaddis: Expanding Auditory Discourse | p. 132 |
Kurt Vonnegut: Cybernetic, Contrapuntal Presentation of Time and Space | p. 153 |
Philip K. Dick: Metamorphosing Player Pianos | p. 162 |
Musico-Genetic Novels since the 1950s: Counterpoint in the Image of the DNA Double-Helix | p. 179 |
John Barth: Floating Contrapuntal Narratives as Musico-Genetic Variations | p. 183 |
Jerzy Kosinski: Obsession with Musico-Genetic Surrogate Parents | p. 195 |
Richard Powers: Musico-Genetic, Encyclopedic Counterpoint "with Feeling" | p. 204 |
Greg Bear: Musico-Genetic Science Fiction | p. 215 |
Conclusion: The Contrapuntal History of American Literature from the Present to the Future | p. 227 |
Notes | p. 239 |
Bibliography | p. 263 |
Index | p. 275 |
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