Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Circles in Music and Literature. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ryan R. Weber.
• Authors: Weber, Ryan R
• Contents: 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' in his Marching Song of Democracy 4.5 'Cumulative Cosmopolitanism' and the Path to Modernism 4.6 Divided Legacies: Alternate Paths Toward Cultural Salience 5. Chapter 5: Cosmopolitan Ideas: Grieg, MacDowell, and a Tale of Weary Men 5.1 Crumbling Idols and Constructing Models: MacDowell's Fight Against Parochialism 5.2 Daniel Gregory Mason and the Rhetoric of Cosmopolitanism in American 5.3 Cosmopolitan Remainders and the Cultivation of Detachment: Literary Models as Paradigm for Musial Mediations 5.4 Embracing the Local, Unlocking the Universal: MacDowell, Garland, and 'Veritism' in America 5.5 The Nordic as Cosmopolitan Surrogate 5.6 Towards a New Kunstvereinigung: Navigating the Transatlantic Space of Cosmopolitanism 6. Chapter 6: In Search of Hybridity: MacDowell, Grainger, and the End of Anachronisms 6.1 Locating Cosmopolitanism: A Diachronic Comparison of Responses to Cultural Hegemony 6.2 Living in America, Looking to Norway: A Synchronic Comparison of Musical Approaches 6.3 Ancient Literature, Modern Music: Sagas, Tales, and the Bifocality of Cosmopolitan Vistas 6.4 Harnessing a 'Restless Spirit of Change': The Pursuit of Hybridity as the Goal of Progress 6.5 Toward a Development of a Cosmopolitan Aesthetic in America: MacDowell's 'Eight Songs, ' Op. 47 6.6 Cosmopolitanism and the End of Anachronisms 7. Chapter 7: The Grainger Paradox: Manufacturing Hybridity, Circulating Exclusivity 7.1 Marking and Unmarking: The Problem of Universalism in Music 7.2 'Of Rhetoric and Representation': The Literature of Eugenics, Eugenics in Literature 7.3 Dangerous Hybrids & A Biological View of Progress 7.4 Between I and We: A New Matrix of the Individual and Society. 7.5 Race as Binding Agent: From Nordic Gaze to Nordic Fantasy to Nordic Supremacy 7.6 Cosmopolitanism at its Limits: Racial Identity and the Transitive Property of Belonging 8. Chapter 8: Conclusion 8.1 The Nordic Cause & the Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Preserving the Minority, Improving the Majority 8.2 Whose Cosmopolitanism is It?: Double Consciousness and Compound Imperatives 8.3 Ten Theses on Cosmopolitanism in Music and Literature 8.4 Moving Forward or Falling Back?: Continuing Resurgence from the Margins.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (305 pages)
• Subjects: Literature; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Literary studies: from c 1900; Comparative literature; Literature, Modern-19th century; Literature, Modern-20th century; Literature: history & criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030018603
• Related ISBNs: 9783030018597
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