Joyce and the Science of Rhythm

This book situates Joyce's critical writings within the context of an emerging discourse on the psychology of rhythm, suggesting that A Portrait of the Artist dramatizes the experience of rhythm as the subject matter of the modernist novel. Including comparative analyses of the lyrical prose of Virginia Woolf and the 'cadences' of the Imagists, Martin outlines a new concept of the 'modern period' that describes the interaction between poetry and prose in the literature of the early twentieth century.

List of contents

Introduction: 'If thou but scan it well':Rhythm as Meter in Chamber Music 'the most commonplace conversation' Rhythm as Gesture in Stephen Hero and Dubliners: Rhythm as Gesture in Stephen Hero and Dubliners 'the curve of an emotion': Rhythm as Tension in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 109 'Acatalectic tetrameter of iambs marching': Rhythm as Movement in Ulysses Conclusion: Recording Anna Livia Plurabelle

About the author

WILLIAM MARTIN is the inaugural Irish Studies Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Summary

This book situates Joyce's critical writings within the context of an emerging discourse on the psychology of rhythm, suggesting that A Portrait of the Artist dramatizes the experience of rhythm as the subject matter of the modernist novel.

Product details

• Authors: W Martin, W. Martin
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2012
• EAN: 9781349446209
• ISBN: 978-1-349-44620-9
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature; New Directions in Irish and Ir; New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; B, Cultural Studies, Psychology, Behavioral Sciences and Psychology, Psychology, general, Literature: history & criticism, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection