Musical Allusions in the Works of James Joyce: Early Poetry through UlyssesState University of New York Press, 1974 M06 30 - 380 pages Professor Bowen's book is more than a simple collection of musical allusions; it is an engaging discussion of how Joyce uses music to expand and orchestrate his major themes. The introductions to the separate sections, on each of Joyce's works, express a new and cohesive critical theory and reevaluate the major thematic patterns in the works. The introductory material proceeds to analyze the general workings of music in each particular book. The specific musical references follow, accompanied by their sources and an examination of the role each plays in the work. While the author considers the early works with equal care, the bulk of this volume explores the musical resonances of Ulysses, especially as they affect the style, structure, characterization, and themes. Like motifs in Wagnerian opera, some allusions introduce and later remind us of characters—bits of Molly's songs for instance constantly intrude her impending adultery on Bloom's consciousness. Other motifs are linked to concerns such as Stephen's Oedipal guilt over his mother's death, which in turn connects to his preoccupation with Shakespeare, the creator, the father, and the cuckold. Music helps create the bond which briefly joins Stephen and Bloom, and music augments the entire grand theme of consubstantiality. Professor Bowen's style is simple and clear, allowing Joycean artifice to speak for itself. The volume includes a bibliography. |
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... Mother- sex symbol . I have stated elsewhere how the sources of paradox in Joyce's concept of woman found their earliest expression in Chamber Music1 and how the three - way female figure at the end of poem XXXVI is really an expression ...
... Mother- sex symbol . I have stated elsewhere how the sources of paradox in Joyce's concept of woman found their earliest expression in Chamber Music1 and how the three - way female figure at the end of poem XXXVI is really an expression ...
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... Mother Church , and in XVIII the sensual , so that the many - faceted - image pattern of womankind in Joyce's later works really owes something to the ambiguities of Solomon in these early delineations of character and theme by Joyce ...
... Mother Church , and in XVIII the sensual , so that the many - faceted - image pattern of womankind in Joyce's later works really owes something to the ambiguities of Solomon in these early delineations of character and theme by Joyce ...
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... Mother aspects of the church . Here , then , we get a combination of the mother - Virgin - lover fulfill- ment theme but with another Joycean subtlety : the poet will assume the substrative position . He tells her : ' My breast shall be ...
... Mother aspects of the church . Here , then , we get a combination of the mother - Virgin - lover fulfill- ment theme but with another Joycean subtlety : the poet will assume the substrative position . He tells her : ' My breast shall be ...
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... mother , " like her namesake , rather than a real mother . These superficial connections between the two stories set up the more important final connection , which is to The Bohemian Girl . When Frank sings to Eveline " about the lass ...
... mother , " like her namesake , rather than a real mother . These superficial connections between the two stories set up the more important final connection , which is to The Bohemian Girl . When Frank sings to Eveline " about the lass ...
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... mother's death . Thus , the song reference is part of Joyce's intentional suggestion that in Ireland the Evelines of today become the Marias of tomorrow . Phillips George Davies sees in the forgotten stanza and the song a further ...
... mother's death . Thus , the song reference is part of Joyce's intentional suggestion that in Ireland the Evelines of today become the Marias of tomorrow . Phillips George Davies sees in the forgotten stanza and the song a further ...
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Musical Allusions in the Works of James Joyce: Early Poetry through Ulysses Zack R. Bowen Limited preview - 1974 |
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Absent-Minded Beggar alluded association ballad becomes betrayal Blazes Bloom and Stephen Bloom's mind Bloom's thoughts Boylan Boys of Wexford chorus Circe cliché comic connotations consubstantial Croppy Boy dead dear death Dedalus Dignam discussion Don Giovanni drinking Dublin episode Erin eyes father God Save Ireland Goodbye Hamlet Harry Hughes heart hero Hodgart and Worthington Ireland Irish James Joyce John Peel Joyce's leitmotif Leopold Leopold Bloom Lestrygonians lives lost Love's Old Sweet lover M'appari Maritana Martha memory Miss Douce Molly Molly's mother motif Mulligan musical allusions musical references never night novel nursery rhyme Oedipal Old Madrid Old Sweet Song opera passage patriotic pattern play REMARKS Richie riddle role Rose of Castille sailor sang scene Seaside Girls Shakespeare Simon Simon Dedalus sing Sirens chapter song reference stanza sung Sweetheart symbol temptress thee theme Thornton thou tion Ulysses voice waiting words