1st Edition
Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature Musical Modernism
Table of Contents
1. Woolf Rewriting Wagner: The Waves and Der Ring Des Nibelungen
Emma Sutton, University of St Andrews, UK
2. "That’s the Music of the Future": Joyce, Modernism and the "Old Irish Tonality"
Katherine O’Callaghan, Mount Holyoke College, USA
3. The Ring, The Waves and the Wake: Eternal Recurrence in Wagner, Woolf and Joyce
Jamie McGregor, Rhodes University, South Africa
4. Musicality in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade's End: Towards Modernity
Isabelle Brasme, University of Nîmes (Unîmes) and EMMA (Université Paul Valéry Monptellier 3) France
5. The (R)evolution of Olive Moore: Fugue as Bridge to a New Feminist Awakening.
Renée Dickinson, Bellevue College, USA
6. A Strict Arrangement: Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus, and the Kretzschmar Lectures
Maria Kager, Utrecht University, Netherlands
7. Sounding Bodies: Eroticized Music-Making in Proust’s À la Recherche
Axel Englund, Stockholm University, Sweden
8. Rabindranath Tagore and Musical Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Bengal Suddhaseel Sen, Presidency College, Kolkata, India
9. Words for Music Perhaps: W. B. Yeats, Music and Meaninglessness.
Adrian Paterson, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
10. "The way to learn the music of verse is to listen to it": Ezra Pound’s The Pisan Cantos and the "Sequence of the Musical Phrase"
Katherine Firth, La Trobe University, Australia
11. Imagism’s Musical Sympathies: Amy Lowell and Claude Debussy
Debora Van Durme, Ghent University, Belgium
12. Expansive Musical Modernism in William Carlos Williams, Steve Reich and Tom Leonard
Peter Clandfield, Independent Scholar, Ontario, Canada
13. The Sudden Thing of Being No One: Robert Creeley’s Rhythm Changes
Steven Toussaint, University of Wellington, New Zealand
14. "With all that Tutti and Continuo": Musicality and Temporality in Djuna Barnes’ The Antiphon
Caroline Knighton, Birkbeck, University of London.
15. "The Blues Always Been Here": African American Music and Black Modernism in August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Michael Borshuk, Texas Tech Univ. USA.
16. The Musicalization of Samuel Beckett
Thomas Mansell, London Consortium
Biography
Katherine O'Callaghan is Visiting Lecturer in the Department of English at Mount Holyoke College, USA.
