Music in literature : perspectives of interdisciplinary comparative literature / Andrzej Hejmej ; translated by Lindsay Davidson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hejmej, Andrzej.

Contributor:

Davidson, Lindsay, 1973- translator.

Series:

Polish studies, transdisciplinary perspectives ; v. 8.

Polish studies - Transdisciplinary perspectives, 2191-3293 ; volume 8

Standardized Title:

Muzyka w literaturze. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music in literature.

Music and literature.

Intertextuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book captures links between music and literature in the light of recent proposals from theorists of intertextuality and comparative literature, and at the same time diagnoses the current state of comparative literature as a field of literary research. The issue of literary score, namely the phenomenon of musical intertexts which exist in literature, lies at the centre of the author's interests. He examines strict intertextual correlations, in situations where a particular musical composition is implied in the literary record, or where it is precisely indicated, or co-exists with it as a c

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; I. Text - Score; II. "Classical" Theory of Intertextuality; III. Consequences for Literary Studies; IV. New Take on Intertextuality; V. Intertextuality and Literary Score; Part One: Towards Modern Comparative Literature; Stereotype(s) of Music in Literature; I. The Stereotype of Analogy (General Aesthetics); II. Stereotype of (Non)Musicality of Literature; III. Musical Contexts and Intertexts; IV. Music in Literature (Attempts at Typology); Literary Score. Subject Matter of Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature

I. Literature - Music (Methodological Remarks)II. "Scores" Without Notes (Review of the Issues); Artistic activities; Analytical-interpretive activities; Theoretical activities; III. Literary Score (Musical Intertext); IV. Research Perspectives; Interdisciplinarity and Comparative Studies; I. Introductory Remarks; II. Around Interdisciplinarity; III. Comparative Literature - Interdisciplinarity; IV. Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature; V. Cultural Comparative Literature; VI. Closing Remarks; Part Two: Text - Sound Text - Verbal Score

Scores of Sound Poetry (Bernard Heidsieck's Poèmes-partitions Cycle)I. Score - Sound Text; II. Sound Poetry: Source, Tendencies, Definitions; III. Bernard Heidsieck's Experiments; 1. Visual text - sound text; 2. Intermedial text; 3. Sound Poetics - rhetorical figures; IV. Repercussions; Miron Białoszewski's (Sound) Text; I. Types of Textuality (Theses); II. Noises - Clusters - Sounds (Aesthetics of Orality); III. Verbal Scores; IV. From Score To "Knitting ..." (Imiesłów); V. Parallels; Around Schaeffer's Scores; I. "Interdisciplinary Creator"; II. Musical Experiments and Instrumental Theatre

III. Theatrical/Stage/Dramaturgical Scores (Próby)IV. Consequences; Part Three: The Limits of Interpretation: Implied Score; The Effect (Defect) of Translation of Chopin (Kornel Ujejski's Zakochana); I. Introductory Remarks; II. Kornel Ujejski and Music; III. Chopin - Leonia Wild - Ujejski; IV. Zakochana - Mazurka in A minor, Op. 7 No. 2; V. Conclusions; The Peripheral Significance of Music (Stanisław Barańczak's Aria: Awaria); I. Mozart's Don Giovanni - Literary Repercussions; II. Intertextual Parallels; Da Ponte - Barańczak (Phonetic-Compositional Parallels)

Mozart - Barańczak (Prosodic-Semantic Parallels)III. Semantic Effects of Stylisation; IV. Consequences; Michel Butor's Text-score (Dialogue avec 33 variations de Ludwig van Beethoven sur une valse de Diabelli); I. "Generalised Intertextuality; II. Butor's Musical Discourse; III. Score (Literary); IV. Butor's Dialogue with Beethoven; V. Other Butor; Bibliography; I. Artistic Context; II. Musical-Literary Research Contexts; III. Literary Research Contexts (Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, Criticism); Bibliographic Notes; Index; Subject index; Summary

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9783653998573

3653998573

9783653998580

3653998581

9783653026078

3653026075