Music and Sound in the Life and Literature of James Joyce

Gerry Smyth is Professor of Irish Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He has written widely on various aspects of Irish cultural history, including a series of books on the subject of Irish music. He has also written on the role and representation of music in fiction: Music in Contemporary British Fiction: Listening to the Novel (Palgrave Macmillan 2008).

• Chapter 1 Joyce and Music: A Critical Fantasia.- Chapter 2 Here Comes Everybody! Remembering Joyce’s Music.- Chapter 3 ‘Not about something … that something itself’: Musical Joyce and the Critics.- Chapter 4 Echo and Repetition in Chamber Music.- Chapter 5 Joyce, George Moore and the Irish Wagnerian Novel.- Chapter 6 Listening for the Music of What Happens: The Education of Stephen Dedalus.- Chapter 7 Another Listen to the Music in ‘A Mother’.- Chapter 8 A Shout in the Street: Listening to the City in ‘Wandering Rocks’.- Chapter 9 Joyce and the Irish Atlantic: Shanty Aesthetics in the Later Fiction.