Music and the Irish literary imagination

Author(s)

• White, Harry

Bibliographic Information

Music and the Irish literary imagination

Harry White

Oxford University Press, 2008

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-249) and index

Contents of Works

• Introduction: 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

Details

• NCID: BA88166500
• ISBN:
  • 9780199547326
• LCCN: 2008036149
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 260 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR8722.M85
  • DC22 : 820.9/35780899162
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English literature -- Irish authors -- Musical settings -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Music and literature -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Music and literature -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Music -- Ireland -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Music -- Ireland -- 20th century -- History and criticism