Music and literary modernism
Subtitle: critical essays and comparative studies
By: edited by Robert P. McParland
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781443814027
Subjects: Modernism (Music); Modernism (Literature)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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.