Silence and absence in literature and music / edited by Werner Wolf, Walter Bernhart.

• Superior document: Word and Music Studies, Volume 15
• TeilnehmendeR: Wolf, Werner, 1955-; Bernhart, Walter,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Word and music studies ; Volume 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; How Does Absence Become Significant in Literature and Music? /; Rosetta Tones: The Score as Hieroglyph /; The Spectacular Imagination and the Rhetoric of Absence in Armide /; ‘Ghost Writing’: An Exploration of Presence and Absence in Lucia di Lammermoor /; How to Play the Music of Absence? The Romantic Aesthetics of Longing in Schumann’s Kreisleriana, Part 4 /; Mute Performances: Ekphrasis of Music, and Performative Aesthetics in Eyvind Johnson’s Romantisk berättelse /; Silence and Music in Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés /; Silence and the Sawmill: Rainer Maria Rilke on the Nuisance of Sounding Music /; The Inaudible Music of Dada /; Absence, Presence and Potentiality: John Cage’s 4′33″ Revisited /; The Silence of an Elephant: Luigi Nono’s Al Gran Sole Carico d’Amore (1975) /; The Sound of Silence: A Tale of Two Operatic Tempests /; The Film Musical as a Subject for Word and Music Studies /; Musical Form in the Novel: Beyond the Sonata Principle /; Notes on Contributors /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004314865
• ISSN: 1566-0958
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Werner Wolf, Walter Bernhart.

This volume focusses on the rarely discussed reverse side of traditional, ‘given’ objects of studies, namely absence rather than presence (of text) and silence rather than sound. It does so from the bifocal and interdisciplinary perspective which is a hallmark of the book series Word and Music Studies. The twelve contributors to the main subject of this volume approach it from various systematic and historical angles and cover, among others, questions such as to what extent absence can become significant in the first place or iconic (silent) functions of musical scores, as well as discussions of fields ranging from baroque opera to John Cage’s 4’33’’ . The volume is complemented by two contributions dedicated to further surveying the vast field of word and music studies. The essays collected here were originally presented at the Ninth International Conference on Word and Music Studies held at London University in August 2013 and organised by the International Association for Word and Music Studies. They are of relevance to scholars and students of literature, music and intermediality studies as well as to readers generally interested in phenomena of absence and silence.