Music and the Irish literary imagination

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White, Harry.

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White, Harry.

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Physical Description:

xiv, 260 p.

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.

Subject Term:

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.

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Electronic books.

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ProQuest (Firm)

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