The Edinburgh companion to literature and music / edited by Delia da Sousa Correa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sousa Correa, Delia da, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations, music

Other Title:

Companion to literature and music

Literature and music

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This companion charts and extends the work in this expanding interdisciplinary field and is an essential resource for researchers with an interest in literature and other media.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Intertextuality, Topic Theory and the Open Text

2. Secrets, Technology and Musical Narrative: Remarks on Method

3. Derrida, de Man, Barthes, and Music as the Soul of Writing

Part I: Literature and Music before 1500

4. Music and the Book: The Textualisation of Music and the

5. Liturgical Music and Drama

6. Intermedial Texts

7. Citation and Quotation

8. Polytextuality

9. Courtly Subjectivities

10. Gender: The Art and Hermeneutics of (In)differentiation

Part II: Literature and Music in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

11. Music and the Literature of Science in Seventeenth-Century England

12. The ‘Sister’ Arts of Music and Poetry in Early Modern England

Metrical Forms and Rhythmic Effects: Music, Poetry and Song

13. The Music of Narrative Poetry: Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton

14. Against ‘the Music of Poetry’

15. Speaking the Song: Music, Language and Emotion in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline

Performers and Performance

16. Shakespeare’s Musicians: Status and Hierarchy

17. Best-Selling Ballads in Seventeenth-Century England

18. Italian Performance Practices in Seventeenth-Century English Song

Theatre Music and Opera

19. From Tragicomedy to Opera? John Marston’s Antonio and Mellida

20. Learning to Lament: Opera and the Gendering of Emotion in Seventeenth-Century Italy

21. All-Sung English Opera Experiments in the Seventeenth Century

Part III: Literature and Music in the Eighteenth Century

22. Thomas Arne and ‘Inferior’ English Opera

23. Phaedra and Fausta: Female Transgression and Punishment in Ancient and Early Modern Plays

24. ‘When Farce and when Musick can eke out a Play’: Ballad Opera and Theatre’s Commerce

Oratorio

25. National Aspiration: Samson Agonistes Transformed in Handel’s Samson

26. Maurice Greene and the English Church Music Tradition

Eighteenth-Century Fiction and Music

27. The Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Music: Virtuous Performers and Well-Mannered Listeners

28. ‘Dreadful Insanity’: Jane Austen and Musical Performance

29. Music, Passion and Parole in Eighteenth-Century French Philosophy and Fiction

Music, Poetry and Song

30. Shelley’s Musical Gifts

31. Performative Enactment vs Experiential Embodiment: Goethe Settings by Zelter, Reichardt and Schubert

32. The Musical Poetry of the Graveyard

33. Of Mathematics, Marrow-Bones and Marriage: Eighteenth-Century Convivial Song

Part IV: Literature and Music in the Nineteenth Century

34. Music and the Rise of Narrative

Opera

35. From English Literature to Italian Opera: A Tangled Web of Translation

36. James, Argento and The Aspern Papers: ‘Orpheus and the Maenads’

37. Opera in Nineteenth-Century Italian Fiction: Reading ‘Senso’

Nineteenth-Century Fiction and Music

38. Stendhal at La Scala: The Birth of Musical Fandom

39. George Eliot, Schubert and the Cosmopolitan Music of Daniel Deronda

40. Music in Thomas Hardy’s Fiction: ‘You Must Not Think Me a Hard-Hearted Rationalist’

41. Music in Romantic and Victorian Poetry

42. The Princess and the Tennysons’ Performance of Childhood

43. Tchaikovsky’s Songs: Music as Poetry

44. Wagner and French Poetry from Nerval to Mallarmé: The Power of Opera Unheard

Part V: Literature and Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Music and Critical Theory

45. Nelson Goodman: An Analytic Approach to Music and Literature Studies

46. Lyotard, Phenomenology and the Shared Paternity of Literature and Music

Music and Fiction since 1900

47. Music in Proust: The Evolution of an Idea

48. Music in Woolf’s Short Fiction

49. Listening in to D. H. Lawrence: Music, Body, Feelings

50. E. M. Forster and Music: Listening for the Amateur

51. Beckett, Music and the Ineffable

52. Jean Rhys and the Politics of Sound

53. Music in Contemporary Fiction

54. Modernist Poetry and Music: Pound Notes

55. Auden’s Imaginary Song

56. Ivor Gurney: Embracing and Attacking A. E. Housman

57. Music and Contemporary Poetry: Audience, Apology and Silence

58. Le Cas Debussy: Layers of Resonance from Literature into Music

59. Britten, Austen and Mansfi eld Park

60. Tippett, Eliot and Madame Sosostris

Literature, Pop Music and Sound

61. Worlds of Sound in Louis MacNeice’s Early Radio Plays: ‘Figure in the Music’

62. ‘High Fidelity’, ‘Added Value’ and the Aesthetics of Sound Technology in Literary Modernism

63. Words in Popular Songs

64. Notes on Soundtracked Fiction: The Past as Future

Coda

65. Origins and Destinations: A Future for Literature and Music

Notes on Contributors

Editorial Advisory Board

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 5, 2022).

Previously issued in print: 2020.

ISBN:

1-4744-9097-2

0-7486-9313-0

OCLC:

1312727098