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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. ** Review Witen, by situating Joyce in contemporary theories of music, unravelling his manuscript notes to parse the intentions and achievement of the 'Sirens' chapter of Ulysses, and showing how 'Sirens' continues to echo through the rest of the novel has written a book that anyone interested in Joyce will want to read. This is a significant contribution to Joyce studies. Ron Bush, Senior Fellow, Institute of Engl

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Author

Michelle Witen; Erik Tonning; Matthew Feldman

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350125193

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Poetry