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Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Word and Music Studies at Ann Arbor, MI, 1999
This volume assembles twelve interdisciplinary essays that were originally presented at the Second International Conference on Word and Music Studies at Ann Arbor, MI, in 1999, a conference organized by the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA).
The contributions to this volume focus on two centres of interest. The first deals with general issues of literature and music relations from culturalist, historical, reception-aesthetic and cognitive points of view. It covers issues such as conceptual problems in devising transdisciplinary histories of both arts, cultural functions of opera as a means of reflecting postcolonial national identity, the problem of verbalizing musical experience in nineteenth-century aesthetics and of understanding reception processes triggered by musicalized fiction.
The second centre of interest deals with a specific genre of vocal music as an obvious area of word and music interaction, namely the song cycle. As a musico-literary genre, the song cycle not only permits explorations of relations between text and music in individual songs but also raises the question if, and to what extent words and/or music contribute to creating a larger unity beyond the limits of single songs. Elucidating both of these issues with stimulating diversity the essays in this section highlight classic nineteenth- and twentieth-century song cycles by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss and Benjamin Britten and also include the discussion of a modern successor of the song cycle, the concept album as part of today’s popular culture.
The contributions to this volume focus on two centres of interest. The first deals with general issues of literature and music relations from culturalist, historical, reception-aesthetic and cognitive points of view. It covers issues such as conceptual problems in devising transdisciplinary histories of both arts, cultural functions of opera as a means of reflecting postcolonial national identity, the problem of verbalizing musical experience in nineteenth-century aesthetics and of understanding reception processes triggered by musicalized fiction.
The second centre of interest deals with a specific genre of vocal music as an obvious area of word and music interaction, namely the song cycle. As a musico-literary genre, the song cycle not only permits explorations of relations between text and music in individual songs but also raises the question if, and to what extent words and/or music contribute to creating a larger unity beyond the limits of single songs. Elucidating both of these issues with stimulating diversity the essays in this section highlight classic nineteenth- and twentieth-century song cycles by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss and Benjamin Britten and also include the discussion of a modern successor of the song cycle, the concept album as part of today’s popular culture.
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Word and Music Studies at Ann Arbor, MI, 1999
This volume assembles twelve interdisciplinary essays that were originally presented at the Second International Conference on Word and Music Studies at Ann Arbor, MI, in 1999, a conference organized by the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA).
The contributions to this volume focus on two centres of interest. The first deals with general issues of literature and music relations from culturalist, historical, reception-aesthetic and cognitive points of view. It covers issues such as conceptual problems in devising transdisciplinary histories of both arts, cultural functions of opera as a means of reflecting postcolonial national identity, the problem of verbalizing musical experience in nineteenth-century aesthetics and of understanding reception processes triggered by musicalized fiction.
The second centre of interest deals with a specific genre of vocal music as an obvious area of word and music interaction, namely the song cycle. As a musico-literary genre, the song cycle not only permits explorations of relations between text and music in individual songs but also raises the question if, and to what extent words and/or music contribute to creating a larger unity beyond the limits of single songs. Elucidating both of these issues with stimulating diversity the essays in this section highlight classic nineteenth- and twentieth-century song cycles by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss and Benjamin Britten and also include the discussion of a modern successor of the song cycle, the concept album as part of today’s popular culture.
The contributions to this volume focus on two centres of interest. The first deals with general issues of literature and music relations from culturalist, historical, reception-aesthetic and cognitive points of view. It covers issues such as conceptual problems in devising transdisciplinary histories of both arts, cultural functions of opera as a means of reflecting postcolonial national identity, the problem of verbalizing musical experience in nineteenth-century aesthetics and of understanding reception processes triggered by musicalized fiction.
The second centre of interest deals with a specific genre of vocal music as an obvious area of word and music interaction, namely the song cycle. As a musico-literary genre, the song cycle not only permits explorations of relations between text and music in individual songs but also raises the question if, and to what extent words and/or music contribute to creating a larger unity beyond the limits of single songs. Elucidating both of these issues with stimulating diversity the essays in this section highlight classic nineteenth- and twentieth-century song cycles by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss and Benjamin Britten and also include the discussion of a modern successor of the song cycle, the concept album as part of today’s popular culture.
The German Historical Novel / Der deutschsprachige historische Roman
The German Historical Novel / Der deutschsprachige historische Roman
Essays on Dehumanization, Human Isolation and Transcendence
This collection of essays deals with the spiritual crisis in modern society and focusses in particular on European writers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The essays trace themes of spiritual unease, narrowing of inner human space, impoverishment of the self, growing human isolation, dehumanization, and the writers' attempts to overcome this malaise. The essays also try to show how inhuman political and social environments and feelings of cultural impasse can become mitigated and reclaimed by socially conscious acts of creative writing. Obsession, self-delusion, creative frustration and personal tragedy are seen to haunt this kind of modern writing which is at the same time infused with the writers' profound sense of moral responsibility to society and marked, on occasion, by that rare experience of Epiphany and transcendence.
The essays trace themes of spiritual unease, narrowing of inner human space, impoverishment of the self, growing human isolation, dehumanization, and the writers' attempts to overcome this malaise. The essays also try to show how inhuman political and social environments and feelings of cultural impasse can become mitigated and reclaimed by socially conscious acts of creative writing. Obsession, self-delusion, creative frustration and personal tragedy are seen to haunt this kind of modern writing which is at the same time infused with the writers' profound sense of moral responsibility to society and marked, on occasion, by that rare experience of Epiphany and transcendence.
Essays on Dehumanization, Human Isolation and Transcendence
This collection of essays deals with the spiritual crisis in modern society and focusses in particular on European writers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The essays trace themes of spiritual unease, narrowing of inner human space, impoverishment of the self, growing human isolation, dehumanization, and the writers' attempts to overcome this malaise. The essays also try to show how inhuman political and social environments and feelings of cultural impasse can become mitigated and reclaimed by socially conscious acts of creative writing. Obsession, self-delusion, creative frustration and personal tragedy are seen to haunt this kind of modern writing which is at the same time infused with the writers' profound sense of moral responsibility to society and marked, on occasion, by that rare experience of Epiphany and transcendence.
The essays trace themes of spiritual unease, narrowing of inner human space, impoverishment of the self, growing human isolation, dehumanization, and the writers' attempts to overcome this malaise. The essays also try to show how inhuman political and social environments and feelings of cultural impasse can become mitigated and reclaimed by socially conscious acts of creative writing. Obsession, self-delusion, creative frustration and personal tragedy are seen to haunt this kind of modern writing which is at the same time infused with the writers' profound sense of moral responsibility to society and marked, on occasion, by that rare experience of Epiphany and transcendence.
Imagologische Untersuchungen zur Darstellung Irlands und der Iren in der deutschsprachigen Literatur
Series:
Studia Imagologica, Volume: 6
Heilige, edle Wilde oder Barbaren: Literarische Irlanddarstellungen aller Zeiten, die in eine übergreifende imagotype (deutsch-englisch-irische) Makrostruktur eingebunden sind, zeichnen sich durch eine eindeutige Polarisierung aus. Anders als eher thematologisch ausgerichtete Arbeiten analysiert diese Untersuchung vorhandene Irlandbilder in ihrer Genese, Entwicklung und Wirkung und leistet so einen Beitrag zur komparatistischen Imagologie. Ziel der Arbeit ist es nicht, konstatierte Irlandbilder, die durchaus eine objektiv nachweisbare Wirkung auf den außerliteratischen Bereich und die Rezeption von Literatur ausüben, im Sinne der Völkerpsychologie als wahr oder falsch zu klassifizieren. Am konkreten Beispiel Irlands wird vielmehr der Einfluß von Alteritätserfahrungen auf die Bildung literarischer Stereotypen sowie - umgekehrt - die Bedeutung von Literatur für die Wahrnehmung des Fremden, das immer in Abgrenzung zum Eigenen erfahren wird, nachgewiesen.
Imagologische Untersuchungen zur Darstellung Irlands und der Iren in der deutschsprachigen Literatur
Series:
Studia Imagologica, Volume: 6
Heilige, edle Wilde oder Barbaren: Literarische Irlanddarstellungen aller Zeiten, die in eine übergreifende imagotype (deutsch-englisch-irische) Makrostruktur eingebunden sind, zeichnen sich durch eine eindeutige Polarisierung aus. Anders als eher thematologisch ausgerichtete Arbeiten analysiert diese Untersuchung vorhandene Irlandbilder in ihrer Genese, Entwicklung und Wirkung und leistet so einen Beitrag zur komparatistischen Imagologie. Ziel der Arbeit ist es nicht, konstatierte Irlandbilder, die durchaus eine objektiv nachweisbare Wirkung auf den außerliteratischen Bereich und die Rezeption von Literatur ausüben, im Sinne der Völkerpsychologie als wahr oder falsch zu klassifizieren. Am konkreten Beispiel Irlands wird vielmehr der Einfluß von Alteritätserfahrungen auf die Bildung literarischer Stereotypen sowie - umgekehrt - die Bedeutung von Literatur für die Wahrnehmung des Fremden, das immer in Abgrenzung zum Eigenen erfahren wird, nachgewiesen.
Beiträge für Hans Pörnbacher zum 60. Geburtstag und zum Abschied von der Universität Nijmegen
Beiträge für Hans Pörnbacher zum 60. Geburtstag und zum Abschied von der Universität Nijmegen