James Joyce and Absolute Music
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James Joyce and Absolute Music

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James Joyce and Absolute Music

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781350125193
eBook ISBN
9781350014244
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
English Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Series Editors' Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. List of Abbreviations and Editions
  10. Introduction: Perceiving in Registers
  11. 1. Toward a Modernist Condition of Absolute Music
  12. 2. Joyce’s Early Use of Music
  13. 3. Joyce’s Fuga per Canonem: A Case of Structure
  14. 4. Joyce’s Fuga per Canonem : A Case of Effect
  15. 5. Voided Fugue in “Circe”
  16. 6. “It’s Pure Music”: Finnegans Wake
  17. Conclusion: “Codetta or Da Capo?”
  18. Appendix
  19. Works Cited
  20. Index