James Joyce and Absolute Music
Michelle Witen, "James Joyce and Absolute Music "
English | ISBN: 1350125199 | 2019 | 320 pages | PDF | 19 MB
English | ISBN: 1350125199 | 2019 | 320 pages | PDF | 19 MB
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,
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