Music in World Literature

Julia Titus has been teaching courses in Russian language, literature, opera, and theater in the Slavic Department at Yale University for over twenty years. Her research focuses on the comparative study of French and Russian literature, translingual authors, and the intersections of Russian culture, theater, and music. As a comparativist, she is particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches that explore the relationship between literature and music. She is the author of Dostoevsky as a Translator of Balzac (2022), Poetry Reader for Russian Learners (2015), and The Meek One: The Annotated Reader (2011).David Racker has over 25 years teaching experience in Temple University’s English Department and its Intellectual Heritage Program, and brings the expertise of the specialist in literature and the eclecticism of a professor in a great books program to his writing and editing of scholarly work. Thus, while the focus of his writing has been on Henry James, Wallace Stevens, James Baldwin, and Paul Bowles, his perspective on these writers has been shaped by continental philosophy and theory and his experience of living abroad in London, Spain, Rome, and Prague.

• 1  Introduction.- Part I: Music in Literature.- 2 The Theme of Music in “Albert” by Leo Tolstoy.- 3 “I Step Out into Silence”: Poets on Musical Performance.- 4 Classical Music in Andean Exile: Composing Cultural Connections and Refugee Identity in Exile Music by Jennifer Steil.- Part II: Literature as Music.- 5 “Une cadence de musicien”: Proust and the Music of the Work.- 6 Musical Moods: Translating Music in Virginia Woolf’s “The String Quartet”.- 7 The Visible Rhythms of John Cage and Sergei Eisenstein.- Part III: Music and Subjectivity.- 8 The “Musical Fervour” of Edith Wharton.- 9 Music as Mimesis and Catharsis in “Sonny’s Blues”.- 10 Martín Espada: The Unfinished Waltz of Joan and Víctor Jara.- Part IV: Music and Gender.- 11 “Through the Labyrinth of the Heart”: A Queer Phenomenology of Music and Poetry in Nineteenth-Century German Art Song.- 12 Succeeding in Hardcore Tokyo: Musical Space and Gender in Japanese Manga.