This book situates Joyce's critical writings within the context of an emerging discourse on the psychology of rhythm, suggesting that A Portrait of the Artist dramatizes the experience of rhythm as the subject matter of the modernist novel. Including comparative analyses of the lyrical prose of Virginia Woolf and the 'cadences' of the Imagists, Martin outlines a new concept of the 'modern period' that describes the interaction between poetry and prose in the literature of the early twentieth century.

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WILLIAM MARTIN is the inaugural Irish Studies Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

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Book Title: Joyce and the Science of Rhythm
Authors: William Martin
Series Title: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137309457
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-27547-9Published: 15 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-44620-9Published: 15 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-30945-7Published: 15 October 2012
Series ISSN: 2731-3182
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3190
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 223
Topics: Literary History, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Psychology, general, European Literature

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

“If Thou but Scan it Well”

“The Most Commonplace Conversation”

“The Curve of an Emotion”

“Acatalectic Tetrameter of Iambs Marching”

Conclusion

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