James Joyce and absolute music / Michelle Witen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Witen, Michelle L. (Michelle Lynn), author.

Series:

Historicizing modernism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Criticism, Textual.

Joyce, James.

Joyce, James, 1882-1941.

Music and literature.

Criticism, Textual.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : Perceiving in Registers

Toward a Modernist Condition of Absolute Music

Joyce's Early Use of Music

Joyce's Fuga per Canonem : A Case of Structure

Joyce's Fuga per Canonem : A Case of Effect

Voided Fugue in "Circe"

"It's Pure Music" : Finnegans Wake

Conclusion : "Codetta or Da Capo?"

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-289) and index.

ISBN:

9781350014220

1350014222

OCLC:

992689014