Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature

Katherine O'Callaghan is Visiting Lecturer in the Department of English at Mount Holyoke College, USA.

• Table of Contents1. Woolf Rewriting Wagner: The Waves and Der Ring Des NibelungenEmma Sutton, University of St Andrews, UK2. "That’s the Music of the Future": Joyce, Modernism and the "Old Irish Tonality"Katherine O’Callaghan, Mount Holyoke College, USA3. The Ring, The Waves and the Wake: Eternal Recurrence in Wagner, Woolf and Joyce Jamie McGregor, Rhodes University, South Africa 4. Musicality in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade's End: Towards ModernityIsabelle Brasme, University of Nîmes (Unîmes) and EMMA (Université Paul Valéry Monptellier 3) France5. The (R)evolution of Olive Moore: Fugue as Bridge to a New Feminist Awakening.Renée Dickinson, Bellevue College, USA6. A Strict Arrangement: Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus, and the Kretzschmar LecturesMaria Kager, Utrecht University, Netherlands7. Sounding Bodies: Eroticized Music-Making in Proust’s À la RechercheAxel Englund, Stockholm University, Sweden8. Rabindranath Tagore and Musical Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Bengal Suddhaseel Sen, Presidency College, Kolkata, India9. Words for Music Perhaps: W. B. Yeats, Music and Meaninglessness.Adrian Paterson, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland 10. "The way to learn the music of verse is to listen to it": Ezra Pound’s The Pisan Cantos and the "Sequence of the Musical Phrase"Katherine Firth, La Trobe University, Australia11. Imagism’s Musical Sympathies: Amy Lowell and Claude DebussyDebora Van Durme, Ghent University, Belgium12. Expansive Musical Modernism in William Carlos Williams, Steve Reich and Tom Leonard Peter Clandfield, Independent Scholar, Ontario, Canada13. The Sudden Thing of Being No One: Robert Creeley’s Rhythm ChangesSteven Toussaint, University of Wellington, New Zealand14. "With all that Tutti and Continuo": Musicality and Temporality in Djuna Barnes’ The AntiphonCaroline Knighton, Birkbeck, University of London.15. "The Blues Always Been Here": African American Music and Black Modernism in August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black BottomMichael Borshuk, Texas Tech Univ. USA.16. The Musicalization of Samuel BeckettThomas Mansell, London Consortium

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