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Remembering and the Sound of Words Mallarm�, Proust, Joyce, Beckett

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ISBN-10: 0198182686

ISBN-13: 9780198182689

Edition: 1996

Authors: Adam Piette

List price: $280.00
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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,…    
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Book details

List price: $280.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/25/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 294
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Adam Piette is a Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Remembering and the Sound of Words: Mallarm�, Proust, Joyce, Beckett and Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry, 1939-1945. His latest book, The Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2009.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Mallarm� and Poetic Prose: Le D�mon Et Les Rimes Dissimul�s
Re-Establishing Contacts: Prose Rhymes in a La Recherche Du Temps Perdu
Significant Lapses of Speech: Rhymes and Reasons in Joyce's Prose
Beckett's Prose Rhymes: Remembering, Companionability, Self-Accompaniment
Conclusion
Sound-Frequency Percentages 'It is Not to Be Thought Of'
French Sound-Frequency Percentages
Bibliography
Index