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Author:

White, Harry. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91014124

Title:

Music and the Irish literary imagination / Harry White.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xiv, 260 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [244]-249) 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.

ISBN:

0199547327
9780199547326

OCLC:

(OCoLC)244293245

LCCN:

2008036149

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)