Remembering and the Sound of Words: Mallarmï¿1/2, Proust, Joyce, Beckett [Hardcover]

Adam Piette (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198182686 | ISBN-13: 978-0198182689 | Publication Date: July 25, 1996

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 Mallarm�'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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"Remembering the Sound of Words is one of the more remarkable critical studies it has been my good fortune and delight to have read....It is an exciting thesis, complex and ambitious, yet clearly stated and meticulously worked out. The effect is compelling."--James Joyce Literary Supplement

About the Author

Adam Piette is a Lecturer in Modern English Literature at University of Lausanne.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (July 25, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198182686
• ISBN-13: 978-0198182689
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,927,296 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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