Remembering and the Sound of Words · Mallarmé, Proust, Joyce, Beckett
- Authors
- piette, adam
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Tags
- french literature - 20th century - history and criticism , mallarme; stephane - language , literary criticism , literature; comparative - french and english , literature; comparative - english and french , 20th century , english; irish; scottish; welsh , semiotics & theory , english literature - 20th century - history and criticism , proust; marcel - language , history and criticism , french and english , 19th century , joyce; james - language , comparative literature , general , literature; comparative , english literature , french , european , french literature , french literature - 19th century - history and criticism , beckett; samuel - language , memory in literature
- ISBN
- 9780198182689
- Date
- 1996-07-25T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.67 MB
- Lang
- en
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 Mallarmé'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.