An examination of the stanzas of The Faerie Queene reveals a structural complexity that prosodists have not previously discovered. In the prosody of Spenser's epic, two formal prosodic orders function simultaneously. One is the visible structure that has long been acknowledged and studied, eight decasyllabic lines and an alexandrine bound into a coherent entity by a set meter and rhyme scheme. The second is an order made apparent by an oral reading and which involves speech stresses, syntactical groupings, caesura placements, and enjambments. In an audible reading, elements are revealed that oppose the structural integrity of the visible form. The lines cease to be iambic, because most lines contain some irregularities that are incongruent with the meter. The visible structure is further counterpointed by Spenser's free use of caesura and frequent employment of enjambment to create a constantly varying structure of different line lengths in the audible form. This study also examines precedents that Spenser could have known for the union of music and poetry. English lyric poetry written for existing melodies is analyzedand the French experiments with quantitative verse supported with musical settings are discussed. Special emphasis is given to the musical associations of the Orlando furioso, particularly its relation to the tradition of singing narrative poetry to folk melodies. Internal support for the thesis that Spenser deliberately employed musical techniques in his prosody comes from his use of the Tudor masque in the structure of the epic. Evidence is offered to show that the processional masque is the unifying foundation for the whole of The Faerie Queene, A characteristic of the sixteenth-century masque was its combination of art forms, and Spenser found a method for integrating the arts of music and literature. Spenser uses musical techniques in the prosody that he could have expected would echo musical experiences of his reader, thereby creating the accompanying music. The musical techniques not only unify the individual stanzas; they also integrate the prosody with the larger organizing plan of the epic,

This thesis explores E. M. Forster's interest in the politics of music, illustrating the importance of music to Forster's conceptions of personal relationships and imperialism, national character and literary influence, pacifism and heroism, class and amateurism. Discussing Forster's novels, short stories, essays, lectures, letters, diaries, and broadcast talks, the thesis looks into the political nuances in Forster's numerous allusions and references to musical composition, performance, and consumption. In so doing, the thesis challenges previous formalistic studies of Forster's representations of music by highlighting his attention to the contentious relations between music and political contingencies. The first chapter examines A Passage to India, considering Forster's depictions of music in relation to the novel's concern with friendship and imperialism. It explores the ways in which music functions politically in Forster's most ‘rhythmical' novel. The second chapter focuses on Forster's description of the performance of Lucia di Lammermoor in Where Angels Fear to Tread. Reading this highly crafted scene as Forster's attempt to ‘modernize' fictional narrative, it discusses Forster's negotiation of national character and literary heritage. The third chapter assesses Forster's Wagnerism, scrutinizing the conjunction between Forster's rumination on heroism and his criticism of Siegfried. The chapter pays particular attention to Forster's uncharacteristic silence on Wagner during and after the Second World War. The fourth chapter investigates Forster's celebration of musical amateurism. By analysing his characterization of musical amateurs and professionals in ‘The Machine Stops', Arctic Summer, and Maurice, the chapter discusses the gender and class politics of Forster's championing of freedom and idiosyncrasy.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2005. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references: leaf 224-250.

Thesis (M.A.)--Acadia University, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-124). Also available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2009. / Title from title screen (site viewed February 25, 2010). PDF text: iv, 132 p. ; 6 Mb. UMI publication number: AAT 3386563. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

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This dissertation aims to investigate the relations between music and literature in songs that make the work of the pernambucano group Cordel do Fogo Encantado in order to understand the meanings of these interartistics compositions and how they reinvent the crystallized traditions about the image of the Brazilian backland. Therefore, we chose a corpus consisting of seven songs by Cordel do Fogo Encantado (Profecia, Profecia Final, Chover, A Matadeira, Pedra e Bala,Vou saquear a tua feira e Morte e Vida Stanley), chosen not only for their intersection between literature and music, since the whole work of this group has such intersection, but for their expression of the Brazilian backland, the place of origin of the group. Several implications of this approach appeared and to answer them we followed the pioneering work of Steven Paul Scher, who under the name Melopoetic (melos = singing + poetic) includes studies of musical-literary comparativism, seeking connections between the arts. Along the ideas of this author, the notion of Cultural Melopoetic present in the works of Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira, also served as basis. Furthermore, we consider appropriate the dialogue between melopoetic and the concept of oral poetry developed by medievalist Paul Zumthor, comprising the study of orality not only in literature, but in different manifestations in which the voice is the driving force, as well as his idea of performance coupled with the work of Ruth Finnegan under the same topic. The work of Cordel do Fogo Encantado, uniting the afro indigenous music in the backland of Moxotó to the sound of violas and rhythms of popular folklore was increased of literature to portray the backland where tradition and modernity are intertwined, creating a peculiar work. The analytical process sought to demonstrate how the presence of literature and music manifests itself in the songs worked and how this connection is responsible for transcreate a hybrid backland that insists on reinventing itself / Esta dissertação se propôs a investigar as relações entre música e literatura nas canções que compõem a obra do grupo pernambucano Cordel do Fogo Encantado de forma a compreender os sentidos destas composições interartísticas e como elas reinventam as tradições cristalizadas sobre a imagem do sertão. Para tanto elegemos um corpus composto por sete canções do Cordel do Fogo Encantado (Profecia, Chover, Profecia Final, A Matadeira, Pedra e Bala,Vou saquear a tua feira e Morte e Vida Stanley), escolhidas não apenas por sua intersecção entre literatura e música, visto que toda a obra do grupo apresenta tal relação, mas sim por sua expressão do sertão, lugar de origem do grupo. Várias implicações surgiram desta abordagem e para respondê-las nos valemos do trabalho pioneiro de Steven Paul Scher, que sob a denominação de Melopoética (melos = canto + poética) abarca os estudos de comparativismo musical-literário, buscando as conexões entre as artes. Junto às ideias deste autor, a noção de Melopoética Cultural presente nas obras de Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira, também nos serviu de base. Além disso, consideramos pertinente o diálogo entre a melopoética e o conceito de poesia oral desenvolvido pelo medievalista Paul Zumthor que compreende o estudo da oralidade não apenas na literatura, mas nas diversas manifestações em que a voz é a força motriz, bem como a sua ideia de performance aliada aos trabalhos de Ruth Finnegan sobre o mesmo tema. A obra do Cordel do Fogo Encantado, unindo a música afro-indígena do sertão do Moxotó à cantoria de viola e aos ritmos do folclore popular foi acrescida da literatura para retratar um sertão em que tradição e modernidade estão imbricadas, criando uma obra peculiar. O processo analítico por nós utilizado buscou demonstrar como se manifesta nas canções trabalhadas a presença da literatura e da música e como esta conexão é responsável pela transcriação de um sertão híbrido que teima em se reinventar

Orientador: Mário Luiz Frungillo / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T14:31:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bragion_AlexandreMauro_D.pdf: 1552608 bytes, checksum: 965c78de173cb0327f8b839002571a50 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: A presente tese toma como corpus de análise o romance alemão Doutor Fausto, escrito por Thomas Mann entre os anos de 1943 a 1947. Objetivando reconhecer e apontar nele possíveis influências e aspectos pertencentes diretamente ao universo composicional da música erudita, este texto - pautando-se no processo metodológico de comparação entre a literatura e a música apresentado por Steven Paul Scher e Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira - relaciona o referido romance de Mann com a musicografia do compositor austríaco Arnold Schönberg; e propõe, a partir de tais relações, uma leitura de Doutor Fausto à luz das ideias e teorias expostas pelo filósofo Theodor W. Adorno em seus livros Filosofia da Nova Música e Dialética do Esclarecimento / Abstract: The present thesis takes as corpus the analyze of the german novel Doktor Faustus written by Thomas Mann between 1943 and 1947. Aimed to recognize and point out in it possible influences and aspects arising directly from the erudite music compositional universe - and based on the methodological process to compare literature to music presented by Steven Paul Scher e Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira - this work relates Mann's novel with the musicography of the Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg; it also proposes, from such relations, a reading of Doktor Faustus enlightened by Theodor W. Adorno's theories from the books Philosophy of New Music and Dialectic of Enlightenment / Doutorado / Literatura Geral e Comparada / Doutor em Teoria e História Literária

The aim of this thesis was to examine changing representations of men and masculinities in a particular historical period (“The Sixties”) and to explore the impact that this had in a period of rapid social change in the UK and the legacy of that impact. In order to do this, a multi-method study was developed, combining documentary research with a set of eleven semi-structured interviews. The documentary research took the form of a case study of The Beatles, arguing that their position as a group of men who became a global cultural phenomenon, in the period under study, made theme a suitable vehicle through which to read changing representations of masculinities in this period and to reflect on what this meant for men in UK society. The Beatles’ live action films were chosen as a sample of Beatle “texts” which allowed for the Beatles to be looked at at different points in the “The Sixties” and for possible changes over that time period to be tracked. Textual analysis within discourse analysis (based on a framework suggested by van Dijk [1993], Fairclough [1995] and McKee [2003]) was used to analyse the texts. Ideas advanced by the Popular Memory Group (1982) about the interaction of public representations of the past and private memory of that past were influential in the decision to combine this piece of documentary research with interviews with a sample of men, in an age range of 18 to 74. The interview stage was designed to elicit data on the perception of the participants of the role of representation (with particular reference to the Beatles) of masculinities on them as individuals and their ideas about how this may have had an impact in terms of longer term social change. Ehrenreich’s (1983) notion of a male revolt in the late 1950s, an emergence of a challenge to established ideas about men and masculinity, was also influential, particularly as it is an idea at odds with the “crisis in masculinity” discourse (Tolson, 1977; Kimmel, 1987; Whitehead, 2002) at work in a number of texts on men and masculinity. Examining further Inglis’ (2000b : 1) concept of The Beatles as “men of ideas” with a global reach, the chosen Beatle texts were examined for discourses of masculinity which appeared to be resistant to the dominant. What emerged were a number of findings around resistance, non-conformity, feminised appearance, pre-metrosexuality, the male star as object of desire and The Beatles as a global male phenomenon open to the radical diversity of the world in a period of rapid social change. The role of popular culture within this process was central to the thesis, given its focus on The Beatles as a case study. However, broader ideas about the role of the arts also emerged with a resultant conclusion that “the sixties” is where a recognition of the importance of representation begins as well as a period where representations of gender (as well as class and race) became more accessible due to the rise in popularity of TV in the UK and a resurgence in British cinema. The thesis offers a number of ideas for further research, building on the outcomes of this particular study. These include further work on the competing crisis/ revolt discourse at work in the field of critical men’s studies, ascertaining female perspectives on representations of masculinities and their impact, further work on the Beatles through fans and an application of some of the ideas at work in the thesis to other periods of British history.

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