Category: 23.2 Literatuur en Muziek

Abstract Intermedialiteit is in. Ongetwijfeld is de enorme impact van de nieuwe media daar debet aan. Mediatheorie en -geschiedenis lopen aan de frontlinie van het culturele onderzoek. De literatuurwetenschap wil niet te zeer achterblijven en hijst met intermedialiteit de vlag van de vernieuwing. Helemaal onproblematisch is dat niet, want de term intermedialiteit mag dan hip… Continue reading Gillis J. Dorleijn | Literaire muziek. Een demonstratie van een “intermediale” lectuur voorafgegaan door enkele opmerkingen over intermedialiteit

Abstract This article discusses several works from the Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader (1942-1975). It relates these works of Ader to different cultural concepts of the sublime; the romantic and the postmodern sublime. The interpretation moves away from simply identifying Ader as a romantic artist and his oeuvre as concerned with the romantic sublime,… Continue reading Joke Brasser | Bas Jan Ader’s Art in Relation to the Romantic and Postmodern Sublime: Gravity – Passibility – Sublimity

Abstract According to the African- American writer Toni Morrison, her novel Jazz is based on the structure of jazz music. This article analyzes the way in which this “jazzy structure” functions within the novel. In order to do so, the bipartite chronotope of the ship (sound and movement) is used as a concept to engage… Continue reading Charlotte van Oostrum | Listen to those Trains a-Hummin’: Beweging en improvisatie in ‘jazzy’ literatuur

Abstract “Variation 10” (1996), a free improvisation by the British saxophonist Evan Parker, is an act of aggression. More precisely, as I will argue in this essay, the music tells a story about the violence this piece induces on both the listener and the performer. Moreover, according to the French philosopher Alain Badiou, artworks such… Continue reading Vincent Meelberg | Gewelddadige geluiden: de agressie van muzikale narrativiteit

Abstract In the works of many nineteenthcentury European writers and artists there is an increased awareness of the form and medium of the artistic expression which is seen not simply as a convention or as the outer shell of the artwork, but as its guiding tenet. This article focuses on the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk… Continue reading Krisztina Lajosi | Wagner and the (Re)mediation of Art: Gesamtkunstwerk and Nineteenth-Century Theories of Media

Abstract The third movement of Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony is a purely instrumental scherzando arrangement of the composer’s earlier song for voice and piano “Ablösung im Sommer,” which thematizes the singing styles of cuckoo and nightingale. Standard interpretations of the symphony read the movement as little more than an “animal fantasy” – halfway between the… Continue reading Howard Stern | On Mahler’s Cuckoos: Ironies of Text and Music