HERMANN HESSE AND THE DIALECTICS OF TIME Salvatore C. P. ...

Contents
Acknowledgements ___________________________________i
Declaration _________________________________________ ii
Abbreviations______________________________________iii
Abstract_________________________________________ i v
Introduction __________________________________ 1
Chapter 1 Hesse's dialectics and creative process ___________ 13
1.1 Thinking in polarities: Origins __________________________ 14
1.2 Thinking in polarities: Significance ________________________ 18
1.3 Paradoxes _______________________________________ 22
1.4 Magical thinking __________________________________ 27
1.5 Intellectualismvs naivety _____________________________ 28
1.6 Hesse's novels: Autobiographies or reflections of his soul?__________ 30
Chapter 2 Writing 'musically' _______________________ 37
2.1 A matter of senses __________________________________ 39
2.2 Writing as composition ______________________________ 43
2.3 Theme and variations ________________________________ 49
2.4 Leitmotif _______________________________________ 51
2.5 Sonata form and counterpoint: Hesse between Romanticism and Classicism 55
2.5.1 'Ungestaltbare Gestalt': On the verge of paradox ______________ 63
Chapter 3 Music, ethics, and aesthetics _________________ 67
3.1 Hesse's musical taste and its evolution ______________________ 67
3.2 Music: 'Das bedeutet: die Welt hat einen Sinn' _________________ 74
3.3 Wagner, Hesse, and Existentialism ________________________ 81
3.4 Jazz and the dissolution of art___________________________ 92
3.5 Whistling and dancing _______________________________ 98
Chapter 4 Memory, metamorphosis, and epiphany__________ 106
4.1 Identity ______________________________________ 108
4.2 Hesse and memory _______________________________ 110
4.3 Memory and childhood ______________________________ 112
4.4 The need to remember and forget: Memory and morality __________ 117
4.5 Metamorphosis _________________________________ 121
4.6 Epiphany ______________________________________ 131