The Role of Music in Figurations of Love.
Charles Gounod’s Faust, Vincenzo Bellini’s The Puritans and the Idea of a Symphony in Spanish Novels around 1900
Guest lecture, Tuesday 29 October 2013 at 5.15 pm, SR 15.17 (Resowi F1)
All welcome!
This lecture analyzes ‘love’ as an important sociocultural and aesthetic category for Spanish novels around 1900. With the purpose to express figurations of love and the innovation of novel, the authors are experimenting with music. The changing relation of language and music in the expression of love will be shown on the basis of three examples. Charles Gounod’s Faust in the novel La Regenta of Leopoldo Alas ‘Clarín’ exemplifies the romantic concept of love. By including verses of Vincenzo Bel-lini’s The Puritans in the novel Doña Inés Azorín presents a modernist concept. The third example uses elements of a symphony as an abstract idea to describe the concepts love and the novel in Pérez de Ayala’s Tigre Juan/El curandero de su honra.
the author
Rita Rieger studied Spanish and French literature in Graz, Seville and Rennes. From 2009 to 2012 she was scholar of the interdisciplinary PhD Program „Kategorien und Typologien in den Kulturwis-senschaften“ in Graz. She is doing her doctor’s degree in Spanish literature at the Department of Romance Languages and Literature at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz. She has focused on love figurations in Spanish novels between 1874 and 1926 and the role of Tango Argentino in the Argen-tine novel. Currently she is lecturer for Spanish and French literature at the Department of Romance Languages and Literature in Graz.
