Music and myth in modern literature. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Josh Torabi.
• Authors: Torabi, Josh
• Contents: Prelude : Chasing the Ineffable 1. Schopenhauer, Wagner and Nietzsche: the Musicalization of Myth and the Mythologization of Music in The Birth of Tragedy Musico-Mythic Beginnings Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics of Music in The World as Will and Representation Wagner: Musicalizing Nation and Myth in Beethoven Nietzsche’s Aesthetic Models of Music and Myth in The Birth of Tragedy Towards a Nietzschean Configuration in the Modern Novel 2. Jean-Christophe : The Silent Music of the Soul The Genesis of Jean-Christophe A Born Musician: Jean-Christophe’s Early Years The Roots of Artistic Creation: Jean-Christophe the Creator Music Fictionalized: Jean-Christophe’s Compositions Divisions: Apollo, Dionysus and Franco-German Musico-Literary Relations in Jean-Christophe Jean-Christophe’s Final Voyage: Improvisation, Italy and Late Music 3. Joyce’s ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’: Performative Music and Mythic Method in Ulysses Approaching Music and Myth in Ulysses Stephen Dedalus-Dionysus: A Portrait of the Artist’s Aesthetic Theory in "Proteus" From Apollo to Bloom: Resisting Songs in the "Sirens" And Behold: Leopold Could Not Live Without Stephen! The Apollonian and Dionysian, Side by Side in "Eumaeus" Home at Last: Stephen Speaks the Language of Bloom; and Bloom, Finally the Language of Stephen; and so the Highest Goal of Comedy and of Ulysses is Attained. Myth Updating in Ulysses 4. The Pact: Music and Myth in Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus Demonic Origins Mann and Myth Part I: Adrian Leverkühn’s Education Kretzschmar’s Lectures Part II: Why Adrian Leverkühn Writes Such Good Music The Early Works Apocalypse Now! The Great Lament: Adrian Leverkühn’s Masterpiece and Faust’s Redemption Reprise: Myth and Music as Motifs in the Modern Novel
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.9112; Modernism (Literature) -- History; Music and mythology; Music in literature; Mythology in literature; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000294620; 9781000294521; 9781000294576; 9781003091882
• Related ISBNs: 9780367550790
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