Abstract
dc:description"My dissertation reevaluates the function of music in James Joyce's major prose works. Previous scholarship from Matthew Hodgart and Mabel Worthington's landmark Songs in the Works of James Joyce (1959), to Zack Bowen's Musical Allusions in the Works of James Joyce (1974), and Ruth Bauerle's Picking up Airs (1993), have concentrated primarily on identifying the hundreds of allusions to popular and operatic songs in Joyce's fictions. My work leans heavily on this research and expands this approach in two ways. First, I see music in the texts as performing a narrative function. The character's reactions to music being played or sung represents a momentary pause in the narrative action similar to the concept of ""stretch"" outlined by Seymour Chatman. Second, I examine this scene in the context of the text in which it appears: who is performing? who is listening? where is the performance taking place? This dramatic reading of the musical scene in the fiction highlights the relationship between the musical text and the culture."
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Reilly, Seamus Joseph
- Contributors dc:contributor
-
- James Hurt
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI9737232
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/81472