The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music / / Delia da Sousa Correa.

Provides a pioneering interdisciplinary overview of the literature and music of nine centuriesOffers research essays by literary specialists and musicologists that provides access to the best current interdisciplinary scholarship on connections between literature and musicIncludes five historical se...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
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Physical Description:1 online resource (720 p.) :; 24 B/W illustrations 76 musical illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Intertextuality, Topic Theory and the Open Text
  • 2. Secrets, Technology and Musical Narrative: Remarks on Method
  • 3. Derrida, de Man, Barthes, and Music as the Soul of Writing
  • Part I: Literature and Music before 1500
  • Introduction
  • 4. Music and the Book: The Textualisation of Music and the
  • 5. Liturgical Music and Drama
  • 6. Intermedial Texts
  • 7. Citation and Quotation
  • 8. Polytextuality
  • 9. Courtly Subjectivities
  • 10. Gender: The Art and Hermeneutics of (In)differentiation
  • Part II: Literature and Music in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
  • Introduction
  • 11. Music and the Literature of Science in Seventeenth-Century England
  • 12. The ‘Sister’ Arts of Music and Poetry in Early Modern England
  • Metrical Forms and Rhythmic Effects: Music, Poetry and Song
  • 13. The Music of Narrative Poetry: Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton
  • 14. Against ‘the Music of Poetry’
  • 15. Speaking the Song: Music, Language and Emotion in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
  • Performers and Performance
  • 16. Shakespeare’s Musicians: Status and Hierarchy
  • 17. Best-Selling Ballads in Seventeenth-Century England
  • 18. Italian Performance Practices in Seventeenth-Century English Song
  • Theatre Music and Opera
  • 19. From Tragicomedy to Opera? John Marston’s Antonio and Mellida
  • 20. Learning to Lament: Opera and the Gendering of Emotion in Seventeenth-Century Italy
  • 21. All-Sung English Opera Experiments in the Seventeenth Century
  • Part III: Literature and Music in the Eighteenth Century
  • Introduction
  • 22. Thomas Arne and ‘Inferior’ English Opera
  • 23. Phaedra and Fausta: Female Transgression and Punishment in Ancient and Early Modern Plays
  • 24. ‘When Farce and when Musick can eke out a Play’: Ballad Opera and Theatre’s Commerce
  • Oratorio
  • 25. National Aspiration: Samson Agonistes Transformed in Handel’s Samson
  • 26. Maurice Greene and the English Church Music Tradition
  • Eighteenth-Century Fiction and Music
  • 27. The Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Music: Virtuous Performers and Well-Mannered Listeners
  • 28. ‘Dreadful Insanity’: Jane Austen and Musical Performance
  • 29. Music, Passion and Parole in Eighteenth-Century French Philosophy and Fiction
  • Music, Poetry and Song
  • 30. Shelley’s Musical Gifts
  • 31. Performative Enactment vs Experiential Embodiment: Goethe Settings by Zelter, Reichardt and Schubert
  • 32. The Musical Poetry of the Graveyard
  • 33. Of Mathematics, Marrow-Bones and Marriage: Eighteenth-Century Convivial Song
  • Part IV: Literature and Music in the Nineteenth Century
  • Introduction
  • 34. Music and the Rise of Narrative
  • Opera
  • 35. From English Literature to Italian Opera: A Tangled Web of Translation
  • 36. James, Argento and The Aspern Papers: ‘Orpheus and the Maenads’
  • 37. Opera in Nineteenth-Century Italian Fiction: Reading ‘Senso’
  • Nineteenth-Century Fiction and Music
  • 38. Stendhal at La Scala: The Birth of Musical Fandom
  • 39. George Eliot, Schubert and the Cosmopolitan Music of Daniel Deronda
  • 40. Music in Thomas Hardy’s Fiction: ‘You Must Not Think Me a Hard-Hearted Rationalist’
  • Music, Poetry and Song
  • 41. Music in Romantic and Victorian Poetry
  • 42. The Princess and the Tennysons’ Performance of Childhood
  • 43. Tchaikovsky’s Songs: Music as Poetry
  • 44. Wagner and French Poetry from Nerval to Mallarmé: The Power of Opera Unheard
  • Part V: Literature and Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
  • Introduction
  • Music and Critical Theory
  • 45. Nelson Goodman: An Analytic Approach to Music and Literature Studies
  • 46. Lyotard, Phenomenology and the Shared Paternity of Literature and Music
  • Music and Fiction since 1900
  • 47. Music in Proust: The Evolution of an Idea
  • 48. Music in Woolf’s Short Fiction
  • 49. Listening in to D. H. Lawrence: Music, Body, Feelings
  • 50. E. M. Forster and Music: Listening for the Amateur
  • 51. Beckett, Music and the Ineffable
  • 52. Jean Rhys and the Politics of Sound
  • 53. Music in Contemporary Fiction
  • Music, Poetry and Song
  • 54. Modernist Poetry and Music: Pound Notes
  • 55. Auden’s Imaginary Song
  • 56. Ivor Gurney: Embracing and Attacking A. E. Housman
  • 57. Music and Contemporary Poetry: Audience, Apology and Silence
  • Opera
  • 58. Le Cas Debussy: Layers of Resonance from Literature into Music
  • 59. Britten, Austen and Mansfi eld Park
  • 60. Tippett, Eliot and Madame Sosostris
  • Literature, Pop Music and Sound
  • 61. Worlds of Sound in Louis MacNeice’s Early Radio Plays: ‘Figure in the Music’
  • 62. ‘High Fidelity’, ‘Added Value’ and the Aesthetics of Sound Technology in Literary Modernism
  • 63. Words in Popular Songs
  • 64. Notes on Soundtracked Fiction: The Past as Future
  • Coda
  • 65. Origins and Destinations: A Future for Literature and Music
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Editorial Advisory Board
  • Index