James Joyce and Absolute Music

Drawing on draft manuscripts and other archival material, James Joyce and Absolute Music , explores Joyce''s deep engagement with musical structure, and his participation in the growing modernist discourse surrounding 19th-century musical forms. Michelle Witen examines Joyce''s claim of having structured the "Sirens" episode of his masterpiece, Ulysses , as a fuga per canonem , and his changing musical project from his early works, such as Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . Informed by a deep understanding of music theory and history, the book goes on to consider the "pure music" of Joyce''s final work, Finnegans Wake . Demonstrating the importance of music to Joyce, this ground-breaking study reveals new depths to this enduring body of work.>

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Witen
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2019
• EAN: 9781350125193
• ISBN: 978-1-350-12519-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; Historicizing Modernism
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Ireland, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000