James Joyce and Absolute Music

by Michelle Witen and Dr Michelle Witen

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350125199
• ISBN13: 9781350125193
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"