Essays on Literature and Music (1967–2004)

Abstract

Masterminding Word and Music Studies : A Tribute to Steven Paul Scher / Walter Bernhart -- Thomas Mann's 'Verbal Score' : Adrian Leverkühn's Symbolic Confession (1967) ; Notes Toward a Theory of Verbal Music (1970) ; How Meaningful is 'Musical' in Literary Criticism? (1972) ; Brecht's Die sieben Todsünden der Kleinbürger : Emblematic Structure as Epic Spectacle (1974) ; "O Wort, du Wort, das mir fehlt!" : Der Realismusbegriff in der Musik (1975) ; Kreativität als Selbstüberwindung: Thomas Manns permanente 'Wagner-Krise' (1976) ; Temporality and Mediation : W.H. Wackenroder and E.T.A. Hoffmann as Literary Historicists of Music (1976) ; Carl Maria von Weber's Tonkünstlers Leben : The Composer as Novelist? (1978) ; Beethoven and the Word : Literary Affinity or Artistic Necessity? (1980/81) ; Comparing Literature and Music : Current Trends and Prospects in Critical Theory and Methodology (1981) ; Literature and Music (1982) ; Theory in Literature, Analysis in Music : What Next? (1983) ; Comparing Poetry and Music : Beethoven's Goethe Lieder as Composed Reading (1986) ; The Strauss-Hofmannsthal Operatic Experiment : Tradition, Modernity, or Avant-Garde? (1987) ; E.T.A. Hoffmann : Der Dichter als Komponist (1987) ; Mignon in Music (1988) ; The German Lied : A Genre and Its European Reception (1990) ; "Tutto nel mondo è burla" : Humor in Music? (1991) ; Liszt and Literature (1991) ; Musicopoetics or Melomania : Is There a Theory behind Music in German Literature? (1992) ; Hoffmann, Weber, Wagner : The Birth of Romantic Opera from the Spirit of Literature? (1992) ; Der Opernkomponist Hoffmann und das europäische Musiktheater seiner Zeit (1993) ; Da Ponte und Mozart : Wort und Ton in Don Giovanni (1994) ; Acoustic Experiment as Ephemeral Spectacle? : Musical Futurism, Dada, Cage, and the Talking Heads (1994) ; Mozart : an Epistolary Aesthetician? (1997) ; E.T.A. Hoffmanns "Der Dichter und der Komponist" : Manifest romantischer Librettologie oder melopoetische Erzählfiktion? (1998) ; Melopoetics Revisited : Reflections on Theorizing Word and Music Studies (1999) ; Judith Weir's Heaven Ablaze in His Breast : A Postmodern Dance Opera Based on E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman" (2000/2004) ; Eine Berlinische Geschichte : Hoffmanns Brautwahl in Busonis Opernbuch? (2004) / Steven Paul Scher.