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Music and myth in modern literature / Josh Torabi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Torabi, Josh, author.
- Series:
- Among the Victorians and modernists
- Among the Victorians and Modernists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900--Criticism and interpretation.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.
- Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944. Jean-Christophe.
- Rolland, Romain.
- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. Doktor Faustus.
- Mann, Thomas.
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses.
- Joyce, James.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
- Modernism (Literature)--History.
- Modernism (Literature).
- History.
- Music and mythology.
- Music in literature.
- Mythology in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 pages).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Josh Torabi is a literary scholar, and currently a visiting research fellow in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary University of London. He works on European modernism, with a particular focus on the relationship between literature and music. He has published articles on Friedrich Nietzsche, James Joyce and Thomas Mann.
- Contents:
- Prelude: Chasing the Ineffable 1. Schopenhauer, Wagner and Nietzsche: the Musicalization of Myth and the Mythologization of Music in The Birth of Tragedy Musico-Mythic Beginnings Schopenhauer's Metaphysics of Music in The World as Will and Representation Wagner: Musicalizing Nation and Myth in Beethoven Nietzsche's Aesthetic Models of Music and Myth in The Birth of Tragedy Towards a Nietzschean Configuration in the Modern Novel 2. Jean-Christophe: The Silent Music of the Soul The Genesis of Jean-Christophe A Born Musician: Jean-Christophe's Early Years The Roots of Artistic Creation: Jean-Christophe the Creator Music Fictionalized: Jean-Christophe's Compositions Divisions: Apollo, Dionysus and Franco-German Musico-Literary Relations in Jean-Christophe Jean-Christophe's Final Voyage: Improvisation, Italy and Late Music 3. Joyce's 'Gesamtkunstwerk': Performative Music and Mythic Method in Ulysses Approaching Music and Myth in Ulysses Stephen Dedalus-Dionysus: A Portrait of the Artist's Aesthetic Theory in "Proteus" From Apollo to Bloom: Resisting Songs in the "Sirens" And Behold: Leopold Could Not Live Without Stephen! The Apollonian and Dionysian, Side by Side in "Eumaeus" Home at Last: Stephen Speaks the Language of Bloom; and Bloom, Finally the Language of Stephen; and so the Highest Goal of Comedy and of Ulysses is Attained. Myth Updating in Ulysses 4. The Pact: Music and Myth in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus Demonic Origins Mann and Myth Part I: Adrian Leverkühn's Education Kretzschmar's Lectures Part II: Why Adrian Leverkühn Writes Such Good Music The Early Works Apocalypse Now! The Great Lament: Adrian Leverkühn's Masterpiece and Faust's Redemption Reprise: Myth and Music as Motifs in the Modern Novel
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 25, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 1000294528
- 9781003091882
- 1003091881
- 9781000294521
- Publisher Number:
- 40030424788
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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