Joycean aesthetics and mythic imagination in the music of Frank Corcoran

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Dwyer, B. 2019. Joycean aesthetics and mythic imagination in the music of Frank Corcoran. The Musical Times. 160 (1948), pp. 33-48.
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TitleJoycean aesthetics and mythic imagination in the music of Frank Corcoran
AuthorsDwyer, B.
Abstract

This essay explores points of convergence and difference in Irish composer Frank Corcoran's relationship to aesthetic elements at the core of James Joyce's writing. Such shared elements include techniques of deconstruction and assemblage, stream-of-consciousness writing, etymological and lexical invention, and the creation of a mythic vision of 20th-century Ireland. By viewing the music of Frank Corcoran through a Joycean lens, the essay brings new light to a late-modernist Irish composer.

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PublisherMusical Times Publications Ltd
JournalThe Musical Times
ISSN0027-4666
Electronic2397-5318
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Deposited30 Sep 2019
Accepted01 Jan 2019
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© 2019 Musical Times Publications Ltd. The published article in the Middlesex University Research Repository is reproduced with permission.

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Vol. 160, No. 1948 (AUTUMN 2019), pp. 33-48

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