The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature

Rachael Durkin is Senior Lecturer in Music in the Department of Humanities at Northumbria University. Peter Dayan is Honorary Professorial Fellow in Word and Music Studies at the University of Edinburgh. From 2014 to 2019, he was also Obel Visiting Professor at the University of Aalborg in Denmark. Axel Englund is Professor of Literature and Wallenberg Academy Fellow in the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University. Katharina Clausius is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Intermedial Studies in the Département de littératures et de langues du monde at the Université de Montréal.

PART I

Questioning the Universal

1. The Universal: Now You See It, Now You Don’t

Peter Dayan

2. Music, Literature, and the Aesthetics of Eugenics

Ryan Weber

3. ‘That is the music which makes men mad’: Hungarian Nervous Music in Fin-de-Siècle Gay Literature

Zsolt Bojti

4. Music and Gender Roles in Hector Berlioz’s Euphonia and George Sand’s Le Dernier Amour

Nina Rolland

5. Re-writing Music Lyrics as Resistant Poetry in Tyehima Jess’s Olio and Morgan Parker’s There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

Alexandra Reznik

6. On Themes and Variations: Music and Literature in Poststructuralism

Sarah Hickmott

7. Towards Spirit: Samuel Beckett’s Phenomenology of Music

Helen Bailey

8. Music in Postcolonial Literature

Christin Hoene

PART II

Opera and Literature

9. Modern Fiction and Opera: Representing Interiority

Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon

10. Trouble in Paradise: Colette’s Claudine s’en va (1903) and the Problem of Writing about Wagner

Adeline Heck

11. Pushkin in the Language of Exile: Arthur Lourier’s The Feast During the Plague

Klára Móricz

12. Dialogues with Pushkin: From Tchaikovsky to Stravinsky and The Rake’s Progress

Philip Ross Bullock

13. Of Sailors and Divas: Jean Cocteau’s and Francis Poulenc’s La Voix humaine

Steven Huebner

14. Another Turn of the Screw: Enigma in Benjamin Britten and Henry James

Lawrence Kramer

15. ‘Tenderness of an England Long Past’: Opera, Elegy, and the Music of Alan Hollinghurst

Irene Morra

PART III

Musical Form, Literary Form

16. Forming Time: Music, Literature, and Modernity

Jessie Fillerup

17. Formal Innovations and The Idea of Music in French Poetry, 1850-1900

David Evans

18. Music and the Illusions of Form

Peter Nelson

19. Setting Music to Music: Mallarmé, Boulez, and the Transformation of Thought

Joanna Spangenberg

20. Music Without Music – Kurt Schwitters’s Ursonate

Gwendolen Webster

21. Form and Music in Modern Chinese Poetry

He Qianwei

22. Variation Form in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction and Nonfiction

Elicia Clements

23. Sound and Sense Interwoven: Aldous Huxley’s Music of Ideas

Akos Farkas and Gabor Bodnar

24. Music as Content, Form, and Metaphor in Hermann Hesse’s Castalian Utopia

Siglind Bruhn

25. Coherence and Counterpoint: Music in the Modern Short Story

Thomas Gurke

26. The Muses of Noigandres: Music and Form in Brazilian Concrete Poetry

João Pedro Cachopo

PART IV

Popular Music and Literature

27. ‘Booklovers’? Popular Music and the Literary Canon

Caroline Ardrey

28. Jazz Fiction in Global Context: Between Racial Politics and Improvisational Poetics

Eric Prieto

29. Literary Beethovens: Convention, Difference, and Cultural Memory

Nathan Waddell

30. Dusty’s Answer, or, Pop Song for Ali Smith

Stephen Benson

31. Call-and-Response: Black Music and Literature, from Langston Hughes to Morgan Parker

Christopher Lloyd

32. Confessional Poetry, Confessional Pop: Gender, Race, and the Lyric Form in Modern American Writing and Music

Rachel Sykes

33. Literary Pop: Dissecting the Creative Process Behind Maxïmo Park’s ‘Leave This Island’

Paul Smith

34. Jawbreaker: Literary Punk and Authenticity

Arin Keeble

35. The Devil’s Party: Metal and Literature

Samuel Thomas

36. Setting Greek Modernist Poetry to Greek Popular Music: The Emergence of Art-Popular [Entechno Laiko] Song

Christina Michael

37. Performing Brecht’s Paradox: Misuk as Critical Pop?

Heidi Hart

Index