The essay continues Steven Paul Scher's well-known and influential typological reflections
on the field of word and music relations, which he has devised since the late 1960s, and …

This chapter is a revised and adapted version of previous publications (in particular Wolf
2005 and Wolf 2008) and attempts to map the wide field of musico-literary relations on a …

The essay raises some basic theoretical issues of word and music studies with a view to
elucidating musicalized fiction as a special case of musicalized literature. It pleads for an …

The concept of intertextuality derives from the view of a literary work as a text whose
richness of meaning results from its location in a potentially infinite network of other texts. In …

This volume is a pioneering study in the theory and history of the imitation of music in fiction
and constitutes an important contribution to current intermediality research. Starting with a …

" The outstanding originality of this book lies in the detail and perspicuity with which
interrelations are traced between texts, it even seems that relations sometimes work …

The concept of intermediality has come to be part of a fixed critical inventory in the debate on
literature and the other arts and media. Although there is relative agreement with respect to …

In this book Jean-Jacques Nattiez, well-known for his pioneering work in musical semiology,
examines both music, and discourse about music, as products of human activity that are …

This handbook offers students and researchers compact orientation in their study of
intermedial phenomena in Anglophone literary texts and cultures by introducing them to …

Only a theory of intertextuality in music can resolve these questions. Conceptual clarity
becomes even more imperative if we consider the historical nature of intertextuality. In any …