Philip Ross Bullock is Professor of Russian Literature and Music at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Russian at Wadham College. As well as teaching at the University of Wales, Bangor, and University College, London, he has held visiting fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and the Paris Institute for Advanced Study.
Laura Tunbridge is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, and Henfrey Fellow and Tutor in Music at St Catherine's College. She taught at the Universities of Reading and of Manchester. She has been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute, Berlin, and Columbia University, New York, and currently holds a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust.

• INTRODUCTION


• 'L'invitation au voyage'


• HAFIZ


• 1: Natasha Loges: Hafiz between Nations: Song Settings by Daumer/Brahms and Peacock/Beamish


• 2: Stephen Downes: Szymanowski, a Hafiz 'Grablied', and the 'translation' of Nietzsche


• 3: Philip Ross Bullock: The German Roots of Russian Orientalism: Hafiz's Poetry in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Song


• HEINE


• 4: Suzannah Clark: Traces of Tourism and Transnationalism in Liszt's Heine Settings


• 5: Benjamin Binder: Performance Matters in Heine: The Case of Pauline Viardot's 'Das ist ein schlechtes Wetter'


• 6: Laura Tunbridge: 'Once again...speaking of' Heine, in Song


• VERLAINE


• 7: Peter Dayan: Why song in Verlaine's Verse is Always Already Beyond the Nation


• 8: David Evans: French Impressions: The Transnational Afterlives of Verlaine's 'La Lune blanche' in Song


• 9: Carlo Caballero: Paul Verlaine in Parallel: Loeffler, Fauré, Debussy


• 10: Helen Abbott: Song Just Beyond the Nation, or Debussy via Verlaine


• WHITMAN


• 11: Jennifer Ronyak: Johanna Müller-Hermann's Lied der Erinnerung: Austria, America, and Beyond


• 12: Lawrence Kramer: The Émigré Walt Whitman: Songs of Mourning, 1943-48


• 13: Elizabeth Helsinger: A Song, the Sea, and a Listening Boy: Whitman - Swinburne - Delius


• 14: Emma Sutton: Whitman and Stevenson: Singing the Nation from Scotland to Samoa via Ohio and Hawai'i


• Afterword

This book challenges that assumption by exploring the ways in which song crosses national borders. Whether by incorporating foreign canons of poetry alongside native ones, or conveying literature across linguistic borders through acts of performance, song functions as a means of translation.