Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; A note on transliteration; Part I. On the Relationship Between Music and Poetry: 1. Music and poetry: statement of the problem; 2. The significance of music for the romantics and symbolists: evaluation of the 'word'; 3. The influence of Wagner on the symbolists: a new evaluation of the 'word'; 4. Bely, Mallarmé and Verlaine and their approach to music; 5. Bely and the music of his time; Part II. Bely's Musical Devices: 6. Bely's verbal orchestration; 7. Vowel orchestration; 8. Consonantal orchestration; 9. the concept of dissonance in music: Prokofiev and Bely; 10. Bely's dissonances: their 'preparation' and 'resolution'; 11. On 'polyphony'; 12. Bely's synaesthesia: Baudelaire's 'Corressondances' as interpreted by Bely; 13. Rimbaud's sonnet 'Voyelles' and his influence on Bely: The importance of Gogol's 'Craftsmanship'; 14. Bely's original solution to the problem of synaesthesia; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Dr Steinberg discusses Andrey Bely's novels by analysing Wagner's musical techniques and literary devices that Bely employs.