SE Wolf October 2024 "Literature and Music” [SE-lit-mus-Brünn.docx; Vs. 14-08-2024] Description: Poetry (or what we today term ‘literature’) and music used to be called ‘sister arts’. Indeed, there are manifold relationships between the two media/arts. Music can occur in literature in various ways and vice versa: works of literature can thematize music, they may be inspired by music, or attempt to transmit originally musical compositions (and, sometimes, vice versa); occasionally, literary texts may even appear to be ‘musicalized’; last but not least, literary texts can be combined with music in one work (for instance in songs or operas). In this seminar, we will explore a selection of the various forms and functions of the intermedial relationships between literature and music (transmediality plurimediality, intermedial transposition, and intermedial reference in particular) after some theoretical reflections: these will include the characteristic features of both arts (with an emphasis on their similarities and differences) as well as the concept of intermediality and its various forms. As I am an emeritus professor of English literature, English language texts will be in focus. Aims: Exploring medial specificities of both literature and music; making the students aware of the various forms of musico-literary interrelations; making them acquainted with basics of intermediality theory. Reading material/texts (to be prepared in advance): W. Wordsworth, “Daffodils” E. A. Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” (short story) J. Milton, “At a Solemn Musick” V. Woolf, “The String Quartet” (short story) Further material will be provided by means of photocopies. A knowledge of Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, is presupposed as well as some familiarity with musical notation. SE Wolf October 2024 "Literature and Music” [SE-lit-mus-Brünn.docx; Vs. 14-08-2024] PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME 1. (22-10-2024-A) 0. PRELIMINARY REMARKS: motivations for, and objects, aims and structure of, the seminar 1. INTRODUCTION (I): INTERMEDIALITY THEORY AS AN APPROACH TO DISCUSSING ‘LITERATURE AND MUSIC’: terminology (‘medium’, ‘intermediality’); principal systematic forms of intermediality 2. (22-10-2024-B) 2. INTRODUCTION (II): TRANSMEDIAL COMPARISON OF LITERATURE AND MUSIC - TWO SISTER ARTS? – medial similarities and differences 2.1. Medial similarities and differences concerning metareferentiality: a parody of Wordsworth, “Daffodils”, compared to a parody of the 18^th-century symphony in W. A. Mozart, “Ein musikalischer Spaß” (a musical joke) 2.2. Medial similarities and differences concerning narrativity: literary narrativity compared to R. Wagner, overture to Tannhäuser (time permitting) 3. (23-10-2024-A) 3. PLURIMEDIAL COMBINATIONS OF WORDS/LITERATURE AND MUSIC 3.1. Lyrics and music in pop song (The Beatles, “Yesterday”) 3.2. Literary text (extracts) and music in the ”Alan Parsons Project”: E. A. Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” 4. (23-10-2024-B) 4. INTERMEDIAL TRANSPOSITION - Literature inspiring instrumental (programme) music: P. I. Tchaikovsky, “Romeo and Juliet” (fantasy overture) 5. 5. (24-10-2024-A) 6. INTERMEDIAL REFERENCE: thematization and imitation of music in literature 5.1. Traditional conceptions of music in poetry: J. Milton, “At a Solemn Musick” 5.2. Evocation of music: E. M. Forster, Howards End, chap. 5 (evocation of parts of L. van Beethoven’s fifth symphony) 6. (24-10-2024-B) 5.3. Formal imitation of music in literature: the musicalization of fiction in V. Woolf, “The String Quartet” 6. CONCLUSION SE Wolf Oct. 2024 "Literature and Music” [SE-lit-mus-Brünn.docx; Vs. 14-08-2024] SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (Research by seminar convener relevant to seminar) I. Monographs and Essay Collections 1. The Musicalization of Fiction: A Study in the Theory and History of Intermediality. IFAVW Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 35. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999. 2. Selected Essays on Intermediality by Werner Wolf (1992–2014): Theory and Typology, Literature-Music Relations, Transmedial Narratology, Miscellaneous Transmedial Phenomena. Walter Bernhart, ed. Studies in Intermediality 10. Leiden/Boston, MA: Brill-Rodopi, 2018. II. (Co-)Edited Books 1. Walter Bernhart/Steven Paul Scher/Werner Wolf, eds. Word and Music Studies: Defining the Field. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Word and Music Studies at Graz, 1997. Word and Music Studies 1. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999. 2. Walter Bernhart/Werner Wolf, eds. Word and Music Studies: Essays on the Song Cycle and on Defining the Field – Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Word and Music Studies at Ann Arbor, 1999. Word and Music Studies 3. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001. 3. Walter Bernhart/Werner Wolf, eds. Essays on Literature and Music (1967–2004) by Steven Paul Scher. Word and Music Studies 5. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004. 4. Werner Wolf/Walter Bernhart, eds. Framing Borders in Literature and Other Media. Studies in Intermediality 1. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. 5. Werner Wolf/Walter Bernhart, eds. Description in Literature and Other Media. Studies in Intermediality 2. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 6. Werner Wolf, ed., in collaboration with Katharina Bantleon and Jeff Thoss. Metareference across Media: Theory and Case Studies – Dedicated to Walter Bernhart on the Occasion of His Retirement. Studies in Intermediality 4. Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, 2009. 7. Walter Bernhart/Werner Wolf, eds. Self-reference in Literature and Music. Word and Music Studies 11. Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, 2010. 8. Werner Wolf, ed., in collaboration with Katharina Bantleon and Jeff Thoss. The Metareferential Turn in Contemporary Arts and Media: Forms, Functions, Attempts at Explanation. Studies in Intermediality 5. Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, 2011. 9. Werner Wolf/Walter Bernhart/Andreas Mahler, eds. Immersion and Distance: Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and Other Media. Studies in Intermediality 6. Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, 2013. 10. Werner Wolf, ed. Essays on Literature and Music by Walter Bernhart (1985–2013). Word and Music Studies 14. Leiden/Boston: Brill-Rodopi, 2015. 11. Werner Wolf/Walter Bernhart, eds. Silence and Absence in Literature and Music. Word and Music Studies 15. Leiden/Boston, MA: Brill-Rodopi, 2016. 12. Werner Wolf/Nassim Balestrini/Walter Bernhart, eds. Meaningful Absence across Arts and Media: The Significance of Missing Signifiers. Studies in Intermediality 11. Leiden/Boston, MA: Brill-Rodopi, 2019. 13. Werner Wolf/Walter Bernhart, eds. ‘Make It Old’: Retro Forms and Styles in Literature and Music. WMS 19. Leiden/Boston, MA: Brill-Rodopi, 2022. III. Essays 1. “Can Stories Be Read as Music? Possibilities and Limitations of Applying Musical Metaphors to Fiction". Bernd Lenz/Elmar Lehmann, eds. Telling Stories: Studies in Honour of Ulrich Broich on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, PA: Grüner 1992. 205–231. Revised reprint: see above, I.2: Wolf 2018: 213–237. 2. “Intermedialität als neues Paradigma der Literaturwissenschaft? Plädoyer für eine literaturzentrierte Erforschung der Grenzüberschreitungen zwischen Wortkunst und anderen Medien am Beispiel von Virginia Woolfs ‘The String Quartet’”. Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 21 (1996). 85–116. Revised reprint: see above, I.2: Wolf 2018: 3–37. 3. “‘The Musicalization of Fiction’: Versuche intermedialer Grenzüberschreitung zwischen Musik und Literatur im englischen Erzählen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts”. Jörg Helbig, ed. Intermedialität: Theorie und Praxis eines interdisziplinären Forschungsgebiets. Berlin: Schmidt, 1998. 133–164. 4. “Musicalized Fiction and Intermediality: Theoretical Aspects of Word and Music Studies”. Walter Bernhart/Stephen Paul Scher/Werner Wolf, eds. Word and Music Studies: Defining the Field. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Word and Music Studies at Graz, 1997. Word and Music Studies 1. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999. 37–58. Revised reprint: see above, I.2: Wolf 2018: 3–37. 238–258. 5. “‘Willst zu meinen Liedern deine Leier drehn?’ Intermedial Metatextuality in Schubert’s ‘Der Leiermann’ as a Motivation for Song and Accompaniment and a Contribution to the Unity of Die Winterreise”. Walter Bernhart/Werner Wolf, eds. Word and Music Studies: Essays on the Song Cycle and on Defining the Field – Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Word and Music Studies at Ann Arbor, 1999. Word and Music Studies 3. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001. 121–140. Revised reprint: see above, I.2: Wolf 2018: 259–277. 6. “Introduction”. Walter Bernhart/Werner Wolf, eds. Word and Music Studies: Essays on the Song Cycle and on Defining the Field – Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Word and Music Studies at Ann Arbor, 1999. Word and Music Studies 3. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001. vii–xii. 7. “Towards a Functional Analysis of Intermediality: The Case of Twentieth-Century Musicalized Fiction”. Erik Hedling/Ulla-Britta Lagerroth, eds. Cultural Functions of Intermedial Explorations. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. 15–34. Revised reprint: see above, I.2: Wolf 2018: 38–62. 8. “Das Problem der Narrativität in Literatur, bildender Kunst und Musik: Ein Beitrag zu einer intermedialen Erzähltheorie”. Ansgar and Vera Nünning, eds. Erzähltheorie transgenerisch, intermedial, interdisziplinär. WVT-Handbücher zum literaturwissenschaftlichen Studium 5. Trier: WVT, 2002. 23–104. Revised reprint: see above, I.2: Wolf 2018: 349–438. 9. “Intermedialität – ein weites Feld und eine Herausforderung für die Literaturwissenschaft”. Herbert Foltinek/Christoph Leitgeb, eds. Literaturwissenschaft – intermedial, interdisziplinär. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002. 163–192. Revised reprint: see above, I.2: Wolf 2018: 63–91. 10. “Intermediality Revisited: Reflections on Word and Music Relations in the Context of a General Typology of Intermediality”. Suzanne M. Lodato/Suzanne Aspden/Walter Bernhart, eds. Word and Music Studies: Essays in Honor of Steven Paul Scher and on Cultural Identity and the Musical Stage. Word and Music Studies 4. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. 13–34. 11. “Intermedial Iconicity in Fiction – Tema con variazioni”. Wolfgang G. Müller/Olga Fischer, eds. From Sign to Signing. Iconicity in Language and Literature 3. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2003. 339–360. Revised reprint: see above, I.2: Wolf 2018: 555–578. 12. “The Role of Music in Gabriel Josipovici’s Goldberg: Variations”. Style 37/3 (2003). 294–317. 13. “Preface”. Walter Bernhart/Werner Wolf, eds. Essays on Literature and Music (1967–2004) by Steven Paul Scher. Word and Music Studies 5. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004. ix–x. 14. “Language and/or Music as Man’s Comfort? Beckett’s Metamedial Allegory Words and Music”. Suzanne Lodato/David Francis Urrows, eds. Word and Music Studies: Essays on Music and the Spoken Word and on Surveying the Field. Word and Music Studies 7. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 145–163. Revised reprint: see above, I.2: Wolf 2018: 278–294. 15. “‘Schutzironie’ als Akzeptanzstrategie für problematische Diskurse: Zu einer vernachlässigten Nähe erzeugenden Funktion von Ironie”. Thomas Honegger/Eva-Maria Orth/Sandra Schwabe, eds. Irony Revisited: Spurensuche in der englischsprachigen Literatur – Festschrift für Wolfgang G. Müller. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2007. 27–50. 16. “Metaisierung als transgenerisches und transmediales Phänomen: Ein Systematisierungsversuch metareferentieller Formen und Begriffe in Literatur und anderen Medien”. Janine Hauthal/Julijana Nadj/Ansgar Nünning/Henning Peters, eds. Metaisierung in der Literatur und anderen Medien: Theoretische Grundlagen, historische Perspektiven, Metagattungen. Funktionen. Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft. Berlin: de Gruyter 2007. 25–64. 17. “Metafiction and Metamusic: Exploring the Limits of Metareference”. Winfried Nöth/Nina Bishara, eds. Self-Reference in the Media. Approaches to Applied Semiotics 6. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. 303–324. Revised reprint: see above, I.2: Wolf 2018: 295–316. 18. “Erzählende Musik? Zum erzähltheoretischen Konzept der Narrativität und dessen Anwendbarkeit auf Instrumentalmusik”. Melanie Unseld/Stefan Weiss, eds. Der Komponist als Erzähler: Narrativität in Dmitri Schostakowitschs Instrumentalmusik. Ligaturen 2. Hildesheim: Olms, 2008. 17–44. 19. “Description – a Common Potential of Words and Music?”. David Francis Urrows, ed. Essays on Word/Music Adaptations and on Surveying the Field. Word and Music Studies 9. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008. 198–226. 20. “Relations between Literature and Music in the Context of a General Typology of Intermediality”. Lisa Block de Behar/Paola Mildonian/Jean-Michel Dijan/Djelal Kadir/ Alfons Knauth/Dolores Romero Lopez/Márcio Seligmann Silva, eds. Comparative Literature: Sharing Knowledge for Preserving Cultural Diversity. Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). 2008. Oxford. UK: Eolss Publishers [http://www.eolss.net] 21. “Intermedialität und mediale Dominanz typologisch, funktionsgeschichtlich und akademisch-institutionell betrachtet”. Uta Degner/Markus Christian Wolf, eds. Der neue Wettstreit der Künste: Dominanz und Legitimität im Zeichen von Intermedialität. Kultur- und Medientheorie. Bielefeld: transcript, 2010. 241–259. Revised reprint: see above, I.2: Wolf 2018: 153–172. 22. “Preface”. Werner Wolf/Walter Bernhart, eds. Self-reference in Literature and Music. Word and Music Studies 11. Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, 2010. vii–x. 23. “Metamusic? Potentials and Limits of ‘Metareference’ in Instrumental Music – Theoretical Reflections and a Case Study (Mozart, ‘Ein musikalischer Spaß’)”. Walter Bernhart/ Werner Wolf, eds. Self-reference in Literature and Music. Word and Music Studies 11. Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, 2010. 1–32. Revised reprint: see above, I.2: Wolf 2018: 317–346. 24. “(Inter)mediality and the Study of Literature”. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 13.3 (2011): http://docs.lib.purdue.due/clcweb/vol13/iss3/2 (substantially revised version of no. 70); transl. into Spanish by Maria Fernande Piderit (“(Inter)medialidad y el estudio de la literatura” https://uba.academia.edu/MariaPiderit; or: https://www.academia.edu/40206632/_Inter-medialidad_y_el_estudio_de_la_literatura_Werner_Wolf_2011; accessed Feb. 5, 2021) 25. “(Inter)mediality and the Study of Literature”. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, ed. Digital Humanities and the Study of Intermediality in Comparative Cultural Studies. Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2013. 19–31 (reprint from no. 23) 26. “(Inter)mediality and the Study of Literature”. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek/Tutun Mukherjee, eds. Companion to Comparative Literature, World Literature, and Comparative Cultural Studies. Foundation Books. New Delhi: Cambridge UP India, 2013. 205–216. (revised version of no. 23) 27. “‘Revealing what cannot be spoken’ – Gabriel Josipovici's Short Stories as Illustrations and Transcendence of Negativity". LISA e-Journal. 12/2 2014 (30 pp.). http://lisa.revues.org/5772 (revised and enlarged translation of essay no. 12). 28. “Intermedialität: Konzept, literaturwissenschaftliche Relevanz, Typologie intermedialer Formen”. Volker C. Dörr/Tobias Kurwinkel, eds. Intertextualität, Intermedialität, Transmedialität: Zur Beziehung zwischen Literatur und anderen Medien. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014: 11–45. Revised reprint: see above, I.2: Wolf 2018: 173–210. 29. “Literature and Music: Theory”: Gabriele Rippl, ed. Handbook Intermediality: Literature – Image – Sound – Music. Handbooks of English and American Studies 1. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2015. 461–474. 30. “How Does Absence Become Significant in Literature and Music?” Walter Bernhart, Werner Wolf, eds. Silence and Absence in Literature and Music. Word and Music Studies 15. Leiden/Boston: Brill-Rodopi, 2016. 5–22. 31. “Musik in Literatur – showing: Formen und Funktionen musikalisierter Wortkunst”. Nicola Gess/Alexander Honold, eds. Handbuch Musik und Literatur. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017. 95–113. 32. “Transmedial Narratology: Theoretical Foundations and Some Applications (Fiction, Single Pictures, Instrumental Music)”. Narrative 25.3 (2017). Special issue Transmedial Narratology: Current Approaches. Ed. Markus Kuhn/Jan-Noël Thon. 256–285. 33. “Erzählen in der Musik“. Martin Huber/Wolf Schmid, eds. Erzählen. Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft 7. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017. 499–513. 34. “Narrativity in Instrumental Music? A Prototypical Narratological Approach to a Vexed Question”. Selected Essays on Intermediality by Werner Wolf (1992–2014): Theory and Typology, Literature-Music Relations, Transmedial Narratology, Miscellaneous Transmedial Phenomena. Ed. Walter Bernhart. Studies in Intermediality 10. Leiden/Boston. MA: Brill-Rodopi, 2018. 480–500. 35. “Das Feld der Intermedialität im Überblick”. Klaus Maiwald in cooperation with Sabine Groll, eds. Intermedialität: Formen – Diskurse – Didaktik. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider, 2019. 23–47. 36. “Formen intermedialer Bezüge zwischen Literatur und Musik – und welche Erkenntnisse sie für Literatur und Literaturunterricht ermöglichen”. Johannes Odendahl, ed. Musik und literarisches Lernen. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, 2019. 35-56. 37. “Traditional and non-traditional uses of film music and musical metalepsis in The Truman Show“. Walter Bernhart/David Francis Urrows, eds. Music, Narrative, and the Moving Image: Varieties of Plurimedial Interrelations. Word and Music Studies 17. Leiden/Boston, MA: Brill-Rodopi, 2019. 29-46. 38. Werner Wolf/Pei Yali/Shan Jinquin, “Literature and Music: Mapping an Intermedial Field”. Comparative Literature in China 0(3)/2020: 13-37. 39. “‘Make It Old’: Retro-Forms in Literature and Music since the Eighteenth Century”. Walter Bernhart/Axel Englund, eds. Arts of Incompletion: Fragments in Words and Music. Word and Music Studies 18. Leiden/Boston: Brill/Rodopi, 2021. 269-295. 40. “Narrativité et musique instrumentale: Une approche narratologique et prototypique d’un problème délicat ». Marta Grabócz, ed. Narratologie musicale. Topiques, théories et stratégies analytiques. Paris: Hermann, 2021. (translation of essay no. 33) 121-142 IV. Entries in Encyclopedias 1. Articles in: Ansgar Nünning, ed. Metzler Lexikon Literatur- und Kulturtheorie: Ansätze – Personen – Grundbegriffe, Stuttgart: Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1998; fifth ed. 2013; (page references given according to 5^th edition): [7.] “Intermedialität” (344–346), [11.] “Musik und Literatur” (548–549), 2. “Intermedialität” (107–108), “Metafiktion” (172–174), “Paratext” (203–204). Reprint in: Ansgar Nünning, ed. Grundbegriffe der Literaturtheorie, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2004 (rpt. of above). 3. “Intermediality”. David Herman, Manfred Jahn, Marie-Laure Ryan eds. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. London: Routledge, 2005. 252–256. 4. “Leitmotif”. David Herman, Manfred Jahn, Marie-Laure Ryan eds. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. London: Routledge, 2005. 276. 5. “Music and Narrative”. David Herman, Manfred Jahn, Marie-Laure Ryan eds. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. London: Routledge, 2005. 324–329. 5. “Intermedialität”. Reprint in: Ansgar Nünning, ed. Grundbegriffe der Kulturtheorie und Kulturwissenschaft, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2005 (rpt.). 83–85. V. Reviews (Review Essays) 1. “Irina O. Rajewsky. Intermedialität”. Poetica 34 (2002). 456–461. 2. “Erik Alder/Dietmar Hauck. Music and Literature: Music in the Works of Anthony Burgess and E. M. Forster. An Interdisciplinary Study”. Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik (AAA) 32 (2007). 101–104. 3. “Claus-Ulrich Viol. Jukebooks: Contemporary British Fiction, Popular Music, and Cultural Value”. Anglistik (2009). 212–216. 4. Richard Müller, ed. “The Emerging Contours of the Medium: Literature and Mediality”, for Anglia (in preparation)