Calling for expressions of interest in a special issue of Humanities on Music and the Written Word

Words and song have long been thought to spring from the same expressive impulse. In Disgrace, JM Coetzee writes that “the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty…[Read more]

Calling for expressions of interest in a special issue of Humanities on Music and the Written Word

Words and song have long been thought to spring from the same expressive impulse. In Disgrace, JM Coetzee writes that “the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty…[Read more]

My new book is primarily a work of literary criticism about the British novelist Iris Murdoch and the music and sound in her novels. I discuss various examples of the way she deploys sound and silence, how music appears as a theme and so on. I also survey musical works setting her words, by composers including Malcolm Williamson and William…[Read more]

Call for Papers
Immortal Austen
An International Conference
Hosted by the School of Humanities and Creative Arts, Flinders University At Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia 13-16 July 2017
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Prof Devoney Looser (Arizona State)
Prof Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford)
Assoc. Prof Clara Tuite (Melbourne)
When Jane Austen…[Read more]