Music and Literary Modernism: Critical Essays and Comparative Studies - Tapa dura

In Music and Literary Modernism, the intersections of music, literature and language are examined by an international group of scholars who engage in studies of modernist art and practice. The essays collected here present the significant place of music in the writing of T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, James Weldon Johnson, Mina Loy, Stephen Mallarme, Ezra Pound, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein,Wallace Stevens and Virginia Woolf, as well as the importance of literary art for composers such as George Antheil, Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messaein, and The Beatles. Contributors explore the role of music and literary modernism in the postmodern sublime, sound and "music" in language, the uneasy alliance of jazz and pop song in high modernist work, the Beatles as modernists, and other topics.

Dr. Robert McParland is an Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and a composer and lyricist. He is the author of Music-The Speech of Angels (2002) and numerous essays on Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist writers, and has developed musicals based upon the writings of Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde.