Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature

Rachael Durkin is Senior Lecturer in Music in the Department of Humanities at Northumbria University.Peter Dayan is Honorary Professorial Fellow in Word and Music Studies at the University of Edinburgh. From 2014 to 2019, he was also Obel Visiting Professor at the University of Aalborg in Denmark.Axel Englund is Professor of Literature and Wallenberg Academy Fellow in the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University.Katharina Clausius is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Intermedial Studies in the Département de littératures et de langues du monde at the Université de Montréal.

• PART IQuestioning the Universal1. The Universal: Now You See It, Now You Don’t Peter Dayan2. Music, Literature, and the Aesthetics of EugenicsRyan Weber3. ‘That is the music which makes men mad’: Hungarian Nervous Music in Fin-de-Siècle Gay LiteratureZsolt Bojti4. Music and Gender Roles in Hector Berlioz’s Euphonia and George Sand’s Le Dernier AmourNina Rolland5. Re-writing Music Lyrics as Resistant Poetry in Tyehima Jess’s Olio and Morgan Parker’s There Are More Beautiful Things Than BeyoncéAlexandra Reznik6. On Themes and Variations: Music and Literature in PoststructuralismSarah Hickmott7. Towards Spirit: Samuel Beckett’s Phenomenology of MusicHelen Bailey8. Music in Postcolonial LiteratureChristin HoenePART IIOpera and Literature9. Modern Fiction and Opera: Representing Interiority Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon10. Trouble in Paradise: Colette’s Claudine s’en va (1903) and the Problem of Writing about WagnerAdeline Heck11. Pushkin in the Language of Exile: Arthur Lourier’s The Feast During the PlagueKlára Móricz12. Dialogues with Pushkin: From Tchaikovsky to Stravinsky and The Rake’s ProgressPhilip Ross Bullock13. Of Sailors and Divas: Jean Cocteau’s and Francis Poulenc’s La Voix humaineSteven Huebner14. Another Turn of the Screw: Enigma in Benjamin Britten and Henry JamesLawrence Kramer15. ‘Tenderness of an England Long Past’: Opera, Elegy, and the Music of Alan HollinghurstIrene MorraPART IIIMusical Form, Literary Form16. Forming Time: Music, Literature, and ModernityJessie Fillerup17. Formal Innovations and The Idea of Music in French Poetry, 1850-1900David Evans18. Music and the Illusions of FormPeter Nelson19. Setting Music to Music: Mallarmé, Boulez, and the Transformation of ThoughtJoanna Spangenberg20. Music Without Music – Kurt Schwitters’s UrsonateGwendolen Webster21. Form and Music in Modern Chinese PoetryHe Qianwei22. Variation Form in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction and NonfictionElicia Clements23. Sound and Sense Interwoven: Aldous Huxley’s Music of IdeasAkos Farkas and Gabor Bodnar24. Music as Content, Form, and Metaphor in Hermann Hesse’s Castalian UtopiaSiglind Bruhn25. Coherence and Counterpoint: Music in the Modern Short StoryThomas Gurke26. The Muses of Noigandres: Music and Form in Brazilian Concrete PoetryJoão Pedro CachopoPART IVPopular Music and Literature27. ‘Booklovers’? Popular Music and the Literary CanonCaroline Ardrey28. Jazz Fiction in Global Context: Between Racial Politics and Improvisational PoeticsEric Prieto29. Literary Beethovens: Convention, Difference, and Cultural MemoryNathan Waddell30. Dusty’s Answer, or, Pop Song for Ali SmithStephen Benson31. Call-and-Response: Black Music and Literature, from Langston Hughes to Morgan ParkerChristopher Lloyd32. Confessional Poetry, Confessional Pop: Gender, Race, and the Lyric Form in Modern American Writing and MusicRachel Sykes33. Literary Pop: Dissecting the Creative Process Behind Maxïmo Park’s ‘Leave This Island’Paul Smith34. Jawbreaker: Literary Punk and AuthenticityArin Keeble35. The Devil’s Party: Metal and LiteratureSamuel Thomas36. Setting Greek Modernist Poetry to Greek Popular Music: The Emergence of Art-Popular [Entechno Laiko] SongChristina Michael37. Performing Brecht’s Paradox: Misuk as Critical Pop?Heidi HartIndex

This book is an important and very welcome addition to the rapidly-expanding area of word and music studies. Both ‘literature’ and ‘music’ are interpreted very broadly to include a wide ranging array of discussions in which the creative tension between these two signifying systems is explored. The notion of the universal in music is problematized, followed by a broad investigation of disparate musical forms, ranging from opera to heavy metal, with an equally broad range of literature. The thirty seven contributors come from a large variety of disciplinary backgrounds and provide a fascinating contemporary snapshot of word and music studies. Dr Michael Halliwell, Associate Professor Vocal Studies and Opera, University of Sydney Conservatorium of MusicPresident, International Association for Word and Music Studies‘This volume will be of immense value to scholars and students of modern music and modern literature as well as to those with interdisciplinary interests. It also has much to offer readers with wide-ranging theoretical interests in issues of modernity. As a whole, the volume contributes significantly to current conversations about music and literature - severally and in combination - and to wider conversations about the importance of the arts and humanities. Collectively, the chapters in this book offer a fertile and compelling exploration of key questions of music and modernity.’Delia DaSousa