Phrase and Subject : Studies in Music and Literature (Paperback)

Introduction Part I: Theoretical Issues 1. Stances towards Music as a Language 2. Music before the Literary: Or, the Eventness of Musical Events 3. Music in the Philosophical Imagination: Deconstructing Friedrich Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human 4. The Force of Music in Derrida's Writing Part II: Generic Alliances 5. Music and Realism: Samuel Richardson, Italian Opera, and English Oratorio 6. Saving the Ordinary: Beethoven's 'Ghost' Trio and the Wheel of History 7. Musical Scores and Literary Form in Modernism: Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos and Samuel Beckett's Watt Part III: The Gendered Text 8. Revoicing Rousseau: Stael’s Corinne and the Song of the South 9. The Dear Dead Past: The Piano in Victorian and Edwardian Poetry 10. Music and Kate Chopin's The Awakening 11. Narratives of Masculinity and Femininity: Two Schumann Song Cycles Part IV: Narrative Modes 12. The Concert as a Literary Genre: Berlioz’s Lelio 13. Literature as DEx00E9;ja vu? The Third Movement of Gustav Mahler's First Symphony 14. Fugue or Music Drama? Symmetry, Counterpoint, and Leitmotif in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov 15. Benjamin Britten and Wilfred Owen: An Intertextual Reading of the War Requiem