Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-50069-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 208, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 739 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction explores the various links between the self and popular music in contemporary fiction. In the novels discussed in this volume, musical references go far beyond creating a tapestry of sound, they make literary characters come alive by giving an account of the physiological and psychological effects of their musical experiences and of their ways of life in different (sub)cultural and social groups. With plots revolving around songs and albums, musicians and bands, and fans and scenes, the thematic focus on the self encompasses the relation of musical taste and identity construction, popular music’s function as a medium of individual and collective memory, and its uses in everyday life across decades, spaces, and genres.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bachleitner, Norbert

Werner, Juliane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul

Über Autor(innen)

Norbert Bachleitner is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, Austria. His fields of interest include the reception of English and French literature in the German speaking area, literary translation and transfer studies, the social history of literature, censorship, literature in periodicals, intertextuality, and digital literature. His most recent book publication is Die literarische Zensur in Österreich von 1751 bis 1848 (2017).


Juliane Werner, Ph.D., is a member of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her teaching and research focuses on transcultural exchanges (Austria, France, USA), philosophical fiction, literature and psychiatry, word and music studies, and literary animal studies. She is the author of Thomas Bernhard und Jean-Paul Sartre (2016) and Existentialismus in Österreich. Kultureller Transfer und literarische Resonanz (2021).