Remembering and the Sound of Words - Mallarme, Proust, Joyce, Beckett (Hardcover, New)

Remembering the Sound of Words is a major new studyof four of modern literature's most important writers--and the first serious attempt to account for complex sound effects in prose Adam Piette establishes fascinating new links between such sound effects and the representation of memory in literary texts. He sets out a workable taxonomy of sound-repetitions in prose and formulates, throught a theory of alternating-devices, the ways in which the reader's attention is drawn to the acoustic surface of the text. Through close analysis of Mallarm 'e's prose-poetry, Proust's musical syntax, Joyce's memory-rhymes (from the Portrait of the Artist through Ulysses to Finegan's Wake ), and Beckett's prose and drama, Piette demonstrates that sound effects act as intricate reminders of memory-traces in the text. Despite wide divergence in these four writers' representations of memory, the book shows that the use of this memory-rhyme technique is common to them all, and is emplyed in particular to express the textual migration of past key-words, self-centred comic tyranny, and the fitful unifaction of body and memory within the narrative voice. This book is intended for scholars and students of

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 1996
First published:	July 1996
Authors:	Adam Piette (Lecturer in Modern English Literature)
Dimensions:	224 x 145 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	294
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-818268-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech) Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	0-19-818268-6
Barcode:	9780198182689

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