Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-249) and index.
Contents
Words for music : in search of the Irish Omphalos -- The auditory imagination of Thomas Moore -- W.B. Yeats and the music of poetry -- Why J.M. Synge abandoned music -- Opera and drama : Bernard Shaw and "The brandy of the damned" -- The 'thought-tormented music' of James Joyce -- Words after music : Samuel Beckett after Joyce -- Operas of the Irish mind : Brian Friel and music -- Words alone : Seamus Heaney, music, and the jurisdiction of literary forms.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.