03635nam 2200721 a 450 991045387160332120200520144314.01-281-92542-X97866119254200-19-156316-1(CKB)1000000000707205(EBL)415561(OCoLC)300701718(SSID)ssj0000207045(PQKBManifestationID)12059082(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000207045(PQKBWorkID)10235619(PQKB)10266068(MiAaPQ)EBC415561(Au-PeEL)EBL415561(CaPaEBR)ebr10266597(CaONFJC)MIL192542(EXLCZ)99100000000070720520080819d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMusic and the Irish literary imagination[electronic resource] /Harry WhiteOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20081 online resource (279 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-954732-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-249) and index.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.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. English literatureIrish authorsHistory and criticismEnglish literatureIrish authorsMusical settingsHistory and criticismEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish literature20th centuryHistory and criticismMusic and literatureHistory19th centuryMusic and literatureHistory20th centuryMusicIreland19th centuryHistory and criticismMusicIreland20th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books.English literatureIrish authorsHistory and criticism.English literatureIrish authorsMusical settingsHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.Music and literatureHistoryMusic and literatureHistoryMusicHistory and criticism.MusicHistory and criticism.820.9/35780899162White Harry608101MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453871603321Music and the Irish literary imagination1125411UNINA