Stephen Benson is Lecturer in Contemporary British Literature at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of Cycles of Influence: Fiction, Folktale, Theory (2003).

• Contents: Introduction: Music for Reading; 'Something familiar': reading Elgar; Voicing the libretto: David Malouf and Michael Berkeley; Quasi parlandoI: polyphony and musical value in Bakhtin and Kundera; Quasi parlando II: Blanchot and the silent narrative; Contemporary fiction and the music itself; Words without song: Kafka and The Unconsoled; Bibliography; Index.

’Literary Music is a rare example of an interdisciplinary study, which alone makes it a welcome contribution, although its own merits are valuable for both sister disciplines. ...a very serious contribution to both musical aesthetics and twentieth-century cultural studies.’ European Legacy

Stephen Benson is Lecturer in Contemporary British Literature at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of Cycles of Influence: Fiction, Folktale, Theory (2003).

• Contents: Introduction: Music for Reading; 'Something familiar': reading Elgar; Voicing the libretto: David Malouf and Michael Berkeley; Quasi parlandoI: polyphony and musical value in Bakhtin and Kundera; Quasi parlando II: Blanchot and the silent narrative; Contemporary fiction and the music itself; Words without song: Kafka and The Unconsoled; Bibliography; Index.

’Literary Music is a rare example of an interdisciplinary study, which alone makes it a welcome contribution, although its own merits are valuable for both sister disciplines. ...a very serious contribution to both musical aesthetics and twentieth-century cultural studies.’ European Legacy

Stephen Benson is Lecturer in Contemporary British Literature at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of Cycles of Influence: Fiction, Folktale, Theory (2003).

• Contents: Introduction: Music for Reading; 'Something familiar': reading Elgar; Voicing the libretto: David Malouf and Michael Berkeley; Quasi parlandoI: polyphony and musical value in Bakhtin and Kundera; Quasi parlando II: Blanchot and the silent narrative; Contemporary fiction and the music itself; Words without song: Kafka and The Unconsoled; Bibliography; Index.

’Literary Music is a rare example of an interdisciplinary study, which alone makes it a welcome contribution, although its own merits are valuable for both sister disciplines. ...a very serious contribution to both musical aesthetics and twentieth-century cultural studies.’ European Legacy