James Joyce and Absolute Music (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350125193)

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.

Author: Michelle Witen
ISBN-10: 1350125199
ISBN-13: 9781350125193
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2019
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.66d