Music and the Irish literary imagination /

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This new reading of Irish literature identifies, for the first time, the formative influence of music in Irish writing over the past 200 years. Although this influence has long been acknowledged in studies of Shaw and Joyce, White explores music as an abiding preoccupation in the work of Moore, Yeat...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: White, Harry, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
1800-1999
English literature > Irish authors > History and criticism.
English literature > Irish authors > Musical settings > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Music and literature > History > 19th century.
Music and literature > History > 20th century.
Music > Ireland > 19th century > History and criticism.
Music > Ireland > 20th century > History and criticism.
Littérature anglaise > Auteurs irlandais > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > Auteurs irlandais > Mises en musique > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Musique et littérature > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Musique et littérature > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Musique > Irlande > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
English literature > Irish authors
Music
Music and literature
Ireland
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Words for music : in search of the Irish Omphalos
  • The auditory imagination of Thomas Moore
  • W.B. Yeats and the music of poetry
  • Why J.M. Synge abandoned music
  • Opera and drama : Bernard Shaw and "The brandy of the damned"
  • The 'thought-tormented music' of James Joyce
  • Words after music : Samuel Beckett after Joyce
  • Operas of the Irish mind : Brian Friel and music
  • Words alone : Seamus Heaney, music, and the jurisdiction of literary forms.

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