Chapter 1: Introduction: Surveying Time, Place, and Space
1.1 Cosmopolitan Creeds and Transatlantic Gestures: Intersections in Music and Literature
1.2 Circles of Influences, Triangles of Affinities: Widening the Scope of Investigation
1.3 Cosmopolitan Dimensions: Conceptualizing Time and Space
1.4 Taking Back the Discourse: The Utility of Conflict in Cosmopolitan Networks
1.5 False Oppositions, "Real" Hybrids: Distance, Detachment, and the Problem of Definitions
1.6 Outline of Chapters
2. Chapter 2: Local Debates, International Partnerships: Garborg, Benzon, and Grieg's Idea of Cosmopolitanism
2.1 National Problems, Cosmopolitan Solutions: Timeless Principles or Emergent Moments?
2.2 Boundaries in Flux: The Polemics of a Country Divided
2.3 The Language Debate and the Dialectic of Identity
2.4 Courting the Other: Grieg's Both/And Affiliations
2.5 Vinje and the Problem of Historicism
2.6 From Literary Models to Musical Language: Grieg, Garborg, and the Path toward Cosmopolitan Synthesis
3. Chapter 3: From Songs to Psalms: Grieg's Cosmopolitan Aesthetic
3.1 Universalism Found, Universalism Contested: Grieg, Benzon, and the Problem of Locality
3.2 Death and Despair as Universalizing Forces: "Beside Mother's Grave," (Ved Moders Grav) Op. 69, No. 3
3.3 Cosmopolitan Conditions, Chromatic Techniques: "Eros," Op. 70, No. 1
3.4 A System of Opposites or a Dialogue of Correspondences? 3.5 Cosmopolitan Layers in Grieg's Last Published Works: Four Psalms, Op. 74
3.6 Cosmopolitanizing the Nation: A Survey of Grieg's Additive Layers
4. Chapter 4: Cosmopolitan Practices: Grieg, Grainger, and the Search for a Musical Analogue
4.1 Late Songs, Early Meetings: Grieg, Grainger, and Cosmopolitan Ambitions
4.2 Literary Influences, Musical Reflections
4.3 In Search of Universal Vistas: Whitman and Grainger's Early Nordic Gaze
4.4 Whitman meets Grieg: Grainger's "Democratic Textures"
About the Author:
Ryan R. Weber is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Misericordia University, USA, where he also serves on the faculty of the Medical and Health Humanities Program. His research has appeared in the journals Ars Lyrica, Musicology Australia, Journal of Musicological Research, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, and others.
