Full Description
Music in World Literature: From Tolstoy to Manga examines the relationship between music and literary works within various national literatures, from the 19th century to the present day, by presenting an amalgam of contemporary critical approaches to this topic across literatures and genres, from music in Leo Tolstoy and Marcel Proust to its role in Japanese manga. In doing so, the collection investigates each author's technique of representing music in literature, or how an author's work has been adapted musically, and includes a broad range of chapters devoted to the analysis of the complex interplay of the two art forms. Essays explore the aesthetic and cultural interactions between music and literature or between audience and performers; the nature of creativity and the role of music in specific texts, as well as the broader topics of integrating a musical performance within a narrative form.
Contents
1 Introduction.- Part I: Music in Literature.- 2 The Theme of Music in "Albert" by Leo Tolstoy.- 3 "I Step Out into Silence": Poets on Musical Performance.- 4 Classical Music in Andean Exile: Composing Cultural Connections and Refugee Identity in Exile Music by Jennifer Steil.- Part II: Literature as Music.- 5 "Une cadence de musicien": Proust and the Music of the Work.- 6 Musical Moods: Translating Music in Virginia Woolf's "The String Quartet".- 7 The Visible Rhythms of John Cage and Sergei Eisenstein.- Part III: Music and Subjectivity.- 8 The "Musical Fervour" of Edith Wharton.- 9 Music as Mimesis and Catharsis in "Sonny's Blues".- 10 Martín Espada: The Unfinished Waltz of Joan and Víctor Jara.- Part IV: Music and Gender.- 11 "Through the Labyrinth of the Heart": A Queer Phenomenology of Music and Poetry in Nineteenth-Century German Art Song.- 12 Succeeding in Hardcore Tokyo: Musical Space and Gender in Japanese Manga.
