Music and literary modernism : critical essays and comparative studies / edited by Robert P. McParland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McParland, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Music).

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

vi, 260 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.

Contents:

Part I: Criticism, music and literature. The sonority of language in literary and musical modernity / Marc Derveaux ; Sounds like now: Music, Avant-gardism, and the post-modern sublime / Kiene Brillenburg Wurth ; Boulez, Joyce, Mallarmé : Music as modernist literature / Zbigniew Granat

Part II: Musical and literary interactions. Within a space of tears: Music, writing, and the modern in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage out / Emma Sutton ; Dear EzzROAR, Dear Anthill: Ezra Pound, George Antheil and the complications of patronage / Erin E. Templeton ; Not just tangle and drift: Music as metaphor in the poetry of W.B. Yeats / Juli White ; The sound of an idea: Music in the modernist writings of Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein / Tanya Dalziell ; Musical and ideological synthesis in James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man / Michael Kardos ; Opera, maternal influence, and gender in Ernest Hemingway's The Ash Heel's Tendon / Lisa Tyler ; Music: Wallace Stevens' Supreme fiction / Karl Coulthard

Part III: Musical aesthetics and the mystical. Unstable metaphors of divinity: Proust's theology of musical aesthetics / Gregory Erickson ; Silent music in James Joyce's Sirens / Enrico Terrinoni

Part IV: Modernism and popular culture. T.S. Eliot and Ubiquitous Music, 1909-1922 / T. Austin Graham ; The Beatles as modernists / Kenneth Womack ; For further reading ; Contributors ; Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781443814027

1443814024

OCLC:

438642650

Publisher Number:

99939594703