Remembering and the Sound of Words: Mallarmé, Proust, Joyce, Beckett

ISBN-13: 9780198182689 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 304 str.

Adam Pieette; Adam Piette

Opis

In this book Adam Piette establishes fascinating new links between 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. Piette scrutinizes Mallarme's prose-poetry, Proust's musical syntax, Joyce's memory-rhymes (from the Portrait of the Artist through Ulysses to Finnegans Wake), and Beckett's prose and drama, demonstrating that sound effects act as intricate reminders of memory-traces in the text. Despite how widely the four writers diverge in their representations of memory, Piette shows that the use of this memory-rhyme technique is common to them all.
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Recenzje

Don't just read this book at your local culture-park. Don't just borrow it. Don't just order it for your library. Buy it. I'd even suggest stealing it, but Adam Piette deserves the royalties. You won't regret doing so.