Discusses Lord Jim, Wuthering Heights, Henry Esmond, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The well-beloved, Mrs Dalloway and Between the acts.
This is an exciting and original study of the poetic significance of formal repetition in Homer. The author argues that localization, metre, and verse-structure are regularly used as semantic markers, providing certain words with a 'meaning' that extends beyond their immediate c…
Whether it be the 'thought-tormented' music of Joyce's 'The Dead', the folk tunes and opera that resound throughout 'Ulysses', or the four- part threnody in Beckett's 'Watt', it is clear that the influence of music on the written word in Ireland is deeply significant. Samuel Bec…
"Music abounds in twentieth- century Irish literature. Whether it be the "thought-tormented" music of Joyce's "The Dead", the folk tunes and opera that resound throughout Ulysses, or the four- part threnody in Beckett's Watt, it is clear that the influence of music on the writte…
"Music abounds in twentieth- century Irish literature. Whether it be the "thought-tormented" music of Joyce's "The Dead", the folk tunes and opera that resound throughout Ulysses, or the four- part threnody in Beckett's Watt, it is clear that the influence of music on the writte…
