The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1452490
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9780748693122
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 720-page volume brings together 71 chapters and 76 illustrations, providing a sustained critical investigation of literature and music over nine centuries. It is based on seven years of intensive research involving the collection, analysis and editing of a large and diverse body of material from archival and other sources. Combining both writing and editing, Da Sousa Correa’s volume is the culmination of a complex, wide-ranging and multi-layered process of data-collection, critical analysis and editorial oversight. The first volume of its kind, Da Sousa Correa’s Edinburgh Companion is a discipline-defining publication setting the parameters of literature and music studies.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Following EUP’s first approach to da Sousa Correa, intensive editorial time was employed in planning the volume’s scope and contents so as to prepare a detailed 30,000-word proposal. The volume was contracted in 2013 and the full commissioning and editing of its contents then took place over a number of years. It therefore represents the culmination of many years of extensive research and editorial enterprise. Da Sousa Correa is also the author of the volume introduction (8050 words), the introduction to Part IV of the volume on Literature and Music in the Nineteenth Century (6500 words) and a chapter on ‘George Eliot, Schubert and the Cosmopolitan Music of Daniel Deronda’ (5560 words). The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music provides a pioneering interdisciplinary overview of the literature and music of nine centuries. Bringing together seventy-one newly commissioned chapters by literary specialists and musicologists, it presents the most recent interdisciplinary research. In five parts, the chapters cover relations between literature and music from the intermediality of the Middle Ages through to the broadening definitions of what constitute ‘literature’ or ‘music’ in the present. The volume introduction and methodology chapters define key concepts for investigating the interdependence of the two art forms and a concluding chapter looks to the future of this interdisciplinary field. An editorial introduction to each historical part explains the main features of the relationships between literature and music in the period and outlines recent developments in scholarship. Contributions represent a multiplicity of approaches: theoretical, contextual and close reading. Case studies reach beyond literature and music to engage with related fields including philosophy, history of science, theatre, broadcast media and popular culture. The volume charts and extends work in this expanding interdisciplinary field and is an essential resource for researchers with an interest in literature and other media.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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