Music and the Irish literary imagination /
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, Yeat...
| Основен автор: | White, Harry. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford, UK :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=271285 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Music and the Irish literary imagination. |
| Резюме: |
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. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xiv, 260 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
0191563161 9780199547326 0199547327 9780191563164 128192542X 9781281925428 |