The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature

Modern literature has always been obsessed by music. It cannot seem to think about itself without obsessing about music. And music has returned the favour. The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature addresses this relationship as a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of word and music studies. The 37 chapters within consider the partnership through four lenses—the universal, opera and literature, musical and literary forms, and popular music and literature—and touch upon diverse and pertinent themes for our modern times, ranging from misogyny to queerness, racial inequality to the claimed universality of whiteness. This Companion therefore offers an essential resource for all who try to decode the musico-literary exchange.

Table of Contents:
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