James Joyce And Absolute Music Michelle Witen by Michelle Witen 9781350014237, 9781350014244, 1350014230, 1350014249, 2017031930 instant download after payment.

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 English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK
James Joyce and Absolute Music is an important contribution to debates about Joyce's musical project. Witen's competence as a musical historian and her dexterous use of archival sources are the building blocks of a well-researched study convincingly demonstrating the importance of non-referential music for Joyce's composition practices.
Vike Martina Plock, Associate Professor of English, University of Exeter, UK
About the Author
Michelle Witen is Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow at the University of Basel, Switzerland.