Michelle Witen

James Joyce and Absolute Music (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350014237
• Artikelnr.: 50915836

Autorenporträt

Michelle Witen (DPhil, Oxford) is a Junior Professor at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany, specializing in British and Irish literatures of the 19th and 20th centuries. She is the author of James Joyce and Absolute Music (Bloomsbury 2018) and co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of the James Joyce Quarterly.