Arts of Incompletion: Fragments in Words and Music (Word and Music Studies, 18)

2021 Brill hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. From the cover: Incompletion is an essential condition of cultural history from the oldest extant works of art, which are partially erased by time, to the most recent ones, which have yet to be finished. The idea of the fragment became particularly important to Romantic art and continued to hold relevance for various strands of modernist and contemporary aesthetics. The fourteen essays in this volume, based on the 2017 Stockholm conference of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA), for the first time address incompletion in a wide range of literary and musical texts, from Baudelaire and Flaubert through Tolstoy and Henry James to Bachmann, Jelinek and Janet Frame, from Nietzsche and Chopin through Russolo and Puccini to Rihm and Kurtág. Two further essays deal with topical general issues in the field of word and music studies. Contents PART 1 Arts of Incompletion: Fragments in Words and Music SECTION 1 Musical Philosophy of Incompletion 1. Philosophy at the Keyboard: Nietzsche’s Music Box - Lawrence Kramer 2. Infinity in an Instant: The Paradox of Timeless Fragments in the Work of Gyorgy Kurtág - Ruth Jacobs SECTION 2 Fragments and Artistic Innovation 3. Drumming Out Art: Nielsen, Huelsenbeck, and Improvised Interruption - Peter Dayan 4. Russolo’s ‘Il risveglio di una città’: A Fragment for an Aesthetics of Noise - Laura Vattano SECTION 3 Fragmentariness as a Creative Force 5. The Fragmentary and the Musical: Baudelaire’s Bits and Pieces - Margaret Miner 6. Variations on the Theme of Dying: Ingeborg Bachmann and the Music of This World - Axel Englund 7. A Fragment of the Whole: Musical and Literary Incompletion in Kirsty Gunn’s Book The Big Music - Christin Hoene 8. Skizzen’s Sketches, Els’s Tweets: Streams of Incompletion in Two Musicalized Novels - Ivan Delazari SECTION 4 Lyric Fragments in Narratives 9. Singing Words and Sticky Music: Fragmentary Lyrics and Acts of Violence - Beate Schirrmacher 10. Fragmented Music, Fragmented Minds: Janet Frame’s Faces in the Water (1961) - Delia da Sousa Correa 11. Otto Dresel’s ‘Loose the sail, rest the oar’: A Study (In)completion - David Francis Urrows SECTION 5 Opera and Fragmentation 12. Operatic Fragments in Fiction and Film - Michael Halliwell 13. The Challenges of Completing a Plurimedial Fragment: Text, Music, and Scene in Berio/Pountney’s Ending of the Opera Turandot - Bernhard Kuhn 14. Fragment and Flow: On Wolfgang Rihm’s Dionysus Opera - Erik Wallrup PART 2 Word and Music Studies: Surveying the Field 15. Sound Studies and Musical Hermeneutics: Bridging the Interdisciplinary Gap - Rolf J. Goebel 16. ‘Make It Old’: Retro Forms in Western Literature and Music since the Eighteenth Century - Werner Wolf.…