Ambivalenz verspüren : Musik, Gewalt und der Körper in Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Klavierspielerin und Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange

The article explores the relation of music and violence in Elfriede Jelinek's The Piano Teacher and Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange. In highlighting the bodily, affective impact of music, music and assault, violence and discipline, become undecidable, ambivalent. This ambivalence performatively foregrounds affective impact in literature and langauge as well