Music and Myth in Modern Literature

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 Leverkuehn's Education

Kretzschmar's Lectures

Part II: Why Adrian Leverkuehn Writes Such Good Music

The Early Works

Apocalypse Now!

The Great Lament: Adrian Leverkuehn's Masterpiece and Faust's Redemption

Reprise: Myth and Music as Motifs in the Modern Novel

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• Estudos literários: desde ~ 1900
• Música
• Estudos literários: geral
• Literatura: história e crítica
• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900

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