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James Joyce's Music Performed: The 'Sirens' Fugue in Experimental Re-Translation

James Joyce's Music Performed: The 'Sirens' Fugue in Experimental Re-Translation

Autieri, Arianna

Hardcover

Series: Transcript, Book 34

Literary CriticismWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 1839543043
ISBN13: 9781839543043
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Jan 30 2026
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.62
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Fugues are complex musical compositions whose intricate contrapuntal texture enchants listeners and performers alike: but how can they be composed from written words, silent on the pages of a book? When James Joyce said that, in the 'Sirens' episode of Ulysses (1922), he aimed to write a fugue, he left his critics and readers wondering about the musical nature of the episode, as well as about the success of his musical intent. In this lucid interdisciplinary study, Arianna Autieri, a musician and translation scholar, interrogates Joyce's 'Sirens' from the standpoint of the (re)translator, investigating how experimental translation can serve as a performative answer to Joyce's famous musical conundrum.

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