Volume 29 No. 1-2

1 May 2014

This double issue of Australian Literary Studies originated with papers from the ‘Listening between the Lines: Exploring the Relationship(s) between Music and Literature’ symposium convened by Christian Griffiths at Monash University in June 2014 on behalf of the Monash University Social Aesthetics Research Network.

Christian Griffiths,

Jessica Trevitt

Listening between the Lines: Introduction: Exploring Interdisciplinarity between Music and Literature

Christian Griffiths

R. Strauss, Opus 67, 1-3, Drei Lieder der Ophelia: Ophelia Set adrift in the Cross-Currents of Interdisciplinary Culture

Adaptation Studies, Convention, Vocal Production and Embodied Meaning in Verdi’s Macbeth: Rehabilitating the Brindisi, or, Lady Macbeth Unsexes Herself

Relinquishing Poetic Form as a Means of Musical Redemption in Gabriel Fauré’s La Chanson d’Éve

Cameron McCormick

Poetic Soundings: Aesthetic Correlation in the Work of T.S. Eliot and Igor Stravinsky

Tyne Daile Sumner

Anne Sexton, Singer: ‘Her Kind’ and the Musical Impetus in Lyric Confessional Verse

Waking up the Colours: Memory and Allegory in Iranian Hip Hop and Ambient Music

Lynley Edmeades

Intention and (In)determinacy: John Cage’s ‘Empty Words’ and the Ambiguity of Performance

Composing Rayuela: The Musical Element in Julio Corrazar’s Narrative

Review of J. M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism, by Katherine Hallemeier

Review of Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry, by Toby Davidson

Natalie Quinlivan

Review of Entangled Subjects: Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures of Talk, Text, and Modernity, by Michele Grossman

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