'Make It Old': Retro Forms and Styles in Literature and Music

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51646-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Word and Music Studies

‘Retro’ is not only a pervading phenomenon in today’s Western culture but has informed cultural history for some centuries and thus gives momentousness to the subject of the present volume, namely literary texts and musical compositions which, for various reasons and with multiple functions, ‘make it old’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bernhart, Walter

Wolf, Werner

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Über Autor(innen)

Walter Bernhart
is retired Professor of English Literature at the University of Graz/Austria; he was President of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA) from its foundation in 1997 to 2019 and is executive editor of ‘Word and Music Studies’ (WMS), several volumes of which he also (co-)edited. His collected essays on the relationship between literature and music were published in WMS 14 (2015).

Werner Wolf is Professor of English and General Literature at the University of Graz/Austria. Main areas of research: aesthetic illusion, narratology, meta-phenomena, functions of literature, intermediality. A selection of his essays on intermediality was published in the Brill/Rodopi series ‘Studies in Intermediality’ in 2018, for which he has (co-)edited six more volumes; he is also (co-)editor of seven volumes of ‘Word and Music Studies’.