Musicality of a Literary Work
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Andrzej Hejmej
This book represents an attempt to capture different links between modern literature and music. The author examines strict intertextual correlations, the phenomena of musicality and musicality of literary works, the musical structure in literature, so-called musical literary texts. He focuses on the novel Le Cœur absolu by Philippe Sollers, the poem Todesfuge by Paul Celan, the Preludio e Fughe by Umberto Saba and the drama Judasz z Kariothu [Judas Iscariot] by Karol Hubert Rostworowski. The analysis also includes Stanisław Barańczak’s cycle of poems Podróż zimowa: Wiersze do muzyki Franza Schuberta [Winter Journey: Poems to the Music of Franz Schubert] and a fragment of Scène from Hérodiade by Stéphane Mallarmé in Paul Hindemith’s composition «Hérodiade» de Stéphane Mallarmé.
Contents
Contents
Part IFrom non-musicality to musicality
1Around Tadeusz Szulc’s Muzyka w dziele literackim [Music in a Literary Work]
2Musicality – musicality of a literary work
The characteristics and the concept of musicality
The paradigms of “musicality” (an attempt at a survey)
Three musicalities of a literary work
3Description of music (between the poetic variant and the interdisciplinary variant)
Defining a literary description of music
Description of a musical work or perception?
The convention of frame of description
Description of a musical work – interdisciplinary variant
Description of perception – poetic variant
Description of music: between the interdisciplinary and the poetic variants
4Literary fugues (Umberto Saba’s Preludio e Fughe and Paul Celan’s Todesfuge)
Umberto Saba’s Preludio e Fughe
The effect of rhetorical strategies
Podróż zimowa as a literary text and a virtual vocal text
Musical matrix (context of Schubert’s text)
Semantic shift (context of Müller’s text)
Consequences of listening and reading – musical literary text
Part IIIAt the borderline of arts
6Score – Judasz z Kariothu [Judas Iscariot] by Karol Hubert Rostworowski
Between dramatic text and stage text
Rostworowski’s musical experiences – Judas
Towards the Theatre of the Absurd: “The words disappear…”
7Literature beyond literature: Hérodiade – “Hérodiade” de Stéphane Mallarmé by Paul Hindemith
A literary work in a musical work