Format:
285 S.
ISBN:
0198182686
Content:
Remembering and the Sound of Words is a major new study of four of modern literature's most important writers - and the first serious attempt to account for complex sound effects in prose
Content:
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, through a theory of alerting-devices, the ways in which the reader's attention is drawn to the acoustic surface of the text. Through close analysis of Mallarme's prose-poetry, Proust's musical syntax, Joyce's memory-rhymes (from Portrait of the Artist through Ulysses to Finnegans 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 employed in particular to express the textual migration of past key-words, self-centred comic tyranny, and the fitful unification of body and memory within the narrative voice
Content:
Mimesis is redefined in terms of textual rhymes - facsimiles of the complex resemblances, fusions, and reenactments of the mind's verbal memory
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
,
Romance Studies
,
English Studies
Keywords:
Mallarmé, Stéphane 1842-1898
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Prosa
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Klang
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Proust, Marcel 1871-1922
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Prosa
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Klang
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Joyce, James 1882-1941
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Prosa
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Klang
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Beckett, Samuel 1906-1989
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Prosa
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Klang
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Moderne
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Prosa
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Klang
;
Prosa
;
Klang
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Geschichte 1870-1940
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