7th

TOPIC: LITERATURE AND MUSIC
                 IN THE LONG 18th AND 19th CENTURIES

DATE: 22 February 2018

COORDINATOR: dr hab. Maria Błaszkiewicz, University of Warsaw

DEADLINES: 

• proposals (about 200 words) - 10 January 2018
• complete papers - 8 February 2018

CfP SUGGESTED TOPICS & THEMES:

• the art of the libretto – opera and oratorio
• musical settings for literary works
• literary works as an inspiration for musical works
• musicality of literature
• music as a literary theme
• music and musicians in the 18th and 19th century novel
• poetry and music
• cultural and political significances and implications of music

PROGRAMME

10:00-11:00 Plenary lecture

Chair: Grażyna Bystydzieńska

Pierre Dubois
Music and the Georgian Novel, or the Divorce of Adam and Eve

11:30-12:30 Session 1
Chair: Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys

Maria Błaszkiewicz
The episode of Saul and the Witch of Endor in literature and music 

Jakub Lipski
The perils of aesthetic pleasure in Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho 

13:00-14:00 Session 2
Chair: Jakub Lipski

Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys
The Aeolian harp and the strain of poetry – musical imagery in P.B. Shelley’s selected verse

Andrzej Weseliński 
Let's dance a gavotte, Mr. Frankenstein.  Some remarks on the theatrical adaptations of Mary Shelley's novel

15:30-17:00 Session 3
Chair: Maria Błaszkiewicz

Barbara Ludwiczak
Function of Music in Anthony Trollope’s The Warden and Barchester Towers

Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska
Content, Syntax, Punctuation – the Uses of Music in The Old Nurse’s Story by Elizabeth Gaskell

Joanna Kokot
Disharmonious harmonies. Music as theme in Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Plenary lecture: room 113

Sessions: room 345
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