Description: Drawing on manuscript drafts and unpublished letters as well as musicological theory, this book explores the central importance of musical structure to Joyce's work, from Ulysses to Finnegans Wake.
Brief description: Michelle Witen (DPhil, Oxford) is a Junior Professor at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany, specializing in British and Irish literatures of the 19th and 20th centuries. She is the author of James Joyce and Absolute Music (Bloomsbury 2018) and co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of the James Joyce Quarterly.
Review Quotes: "Witen shows herself to be a formidable textual scholar. She is also a wonderful reader of the 'Sirens' episode, suggesting that the episode itself has a voice." - James Joyce Literary Supplement