| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 260 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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, Yeats, Synge, Shaw, Joyce, Beckett, Friel, and Heaney. - ;Harry White examines the influence of music in the development of the Irish literary imagination from 1800 to the present day. He identifies music as a preoccupation which originated in the poetry of Thomas Moore early in the nineteenth century. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Irish authors -- Musical settings -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music and literature -- History -- 19th century.
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Music and literature -- History -- 20th century.
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Music -- Ireland -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Music -- Ireland -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: White, Harry. Music and the Irish literary imagination. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008 9780199547326 (DLC) 2008036149 (OCoLC)244293245 |
| Standard No. |
9786611925420 |
| ISBN |
0191563161 (electronic bk.) |
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9780191563164 (electronic bk.) |
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