The Musicalization of Fiction.A Study in the Theory and History of Intermediality.

Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. PART I: THEORY THE COMPARABILITY OF MUSIC AND LITERATURE INTERMEDIALITY AND THE SPECIAL CASE OF THE MUSICALIZATION OF LITERATURE/FICTION 2. Music and (narrative) literature: principal similarities and differences. 3. 'Intermediality': definition, typology, related terms 4. Musico-literary intermediality and the musicalization of literature/fiction: definition and typology 5. How to recognize a musicalized fiction when reading one PART II: HISTORY. THE MUSICALIZATION OF FICTION IN ENGLISH LITERATURE: AESTHETIC PREHISTORY AND INTERMEDIAL EXPERIMENTS FROM ROMANTICISM TO POSTMODERNISM. 6. The prehistory of the musicalization of fiction: the rise of music in aesthetic evaluation from the eighteenth century to romanticism - stages and factors. 7. Romantic musicalization of fiction: De Quincey, Dream Fugue 8. Modernist musicalization of fiction I: the Sirens episode in Joyce's Ulysses 9. Modernist musicalization of fiction II: Woolf, The String Quartet 10. Modernist musicalization of fiction III: Huxley, Point Counter Point 11. Postmodernist musicalization of fiction I: Beckett, Ping - an intermedial borderline case 12. Postmodernist musicalization of fiction II: Burgess, Napoleon Symphony 13. Postmodernist musicalization of fiction III: Josipovici, Fuga 14.