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Music and Myth in Modern Literature

 
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Short description:

This book is the first major study that explores the intrinsic connection between music and myth, as Nietzsche conceived of it in The Birth of Tragedy (1872), revealing new depths to the work of our most enduring writers and thinkers. ?

Long description:

This book is the first major study that explores the intrinsic connection between music and myth, as Nietzsche conceived of it in The Birth of Tragedy (1872), in three great works of modern literature: Romain Rolland?s Nobel Prize winning novel Jean-Christophe (1904-12), James Joyce?s modernist epic Ulysses (1922), and Thomas Mann?s late masterpiece Doctor Faustus (1947). Juxtaposing Nietzsche?s conception of the Apollonian and Dionysian with narrative depictions of music and myth, Josh Torabi challenges the common view that the latter half of The Birth of Tragedy is of secondary importance to the first. Informed by a deep knowledge of Nietzsche?s early aesthetics, the book goes on to offer a fresh and original perspective on Ulysses and Doctor Faustus, two world-famous novels that are rarely discussed together, and makes the case for the significance of Jean-Christophe, which has been unfairly neglected in the Anglophone world, despite Rolland?s status as a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual and literary history. This unique study reveals new depths to the work of our most enduring writers and thinkers. ?

Table of 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