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Music and the Irish literary imagination /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: White, Harry, 1958-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.