This dissertation aims to analyse James Joyce’s first poetic collection, Chamber Music, published in London in 1907. The core of the six chapters of the study is represented by the textual analysis of the collection, from which we infer that Chamber Music constitutes the nucleus of the Joycean opus in its entirety. The collection, usually neglected by Joycean criticism, as it is regarded as the minor aspect of Joyce’s literary production, if compared to the writer’s recognised prose masterpieces, seems to lay the foundations of the thematic and expressive course then developed by Joyce’s (lyrical) prose, evolving along a circular trajectory, rich in inter/intra-textual references. In particular, within the internal structure of the collection, we did identify a progressive integration of more literary-cultural codes, resulting in the coexistence of several semantic-expressive levels, representative of Joyce’s characteristic cultural-stylistic syncretism. The plot of Chamber Music, then, is not simply read as a stereotyped love affair, modelled on Elisabethan songbooks, but also as the process of personal and stylistic evolution of its protagonist, both lover and poet, being representative of Joyce’s first literary alter ego. KEYWORDS: James Joyce; Chamber Music; poetry; lyrical prose.
Questa tesi si propone di analizzare la raccolta poetica Chamber Music di James Joyce, pubblicata a Londra nel 1907. Al centro dei sei capitoli dello studio si colloca l’analisi testuale della raccolta, da cui emerge che essa costituisce il centro dell’opus joyciano nella sua interezza. Questa prima raccolta poetica, cioè, solitamente trascurata dalla critica letteraria joyciana, poiché ritenuta di minore pregio artistico rispetto ai successivi capolavori in prosa dello scrittore, pare porre le fondamenta del percorso tematico-espressivo che la prosa (lirica) di Joyce avrebbe poi sviluppato, evolvendosi lungo una traiettoria circolare, ricca di richiami inter/intra-testuali. Si è riconosciuta, in particolare, nella struttura interna della raccolta, una progressiva integrazione di più codici letterari-culturali, risultante in una compresenza di livelli semantico-espressivi, significativa del sincretismo culturale-stilistico tipicamente joyciano. La vicenda di Chamber Music, così, non è riletta solo quale storia d’amore stereotipata, sull’esempio dei canzonieri elisabettiani, ma anche come processo di evoluzione personale e stilistica del protagonista, lover e poet insieme, che rappresenta il primo alter ego letterario joyciano.
COLOMBO, GERALDINA, PARTS CONSTITUTE A WHOLE. CHAMBER MUSIC (1907) FUCINA DEL MAGNUM OPUS JOYCIANO, REGGIANI, ENRICO, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano:Ciclo XXV [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/286368]
PARTS CONSTITUTE A WHOLE. CHAMBER MUSIC (1907) FUCINA DEL MAGNUM OPUS JOYCIANO
Colombo, Geraldina
2014
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This dissertation aims to analyse James Joyce’s first poetic collection, Chamber Music, published in London in 1907. The core of the six chapters of the study is represented by the textual analysis of the collection, from which we infer that Chamber Music constitutes the nucleus of the Joycean opus in its entirety. The collection, usually neglected by Joycean criticism, as it is regarded as the minor aspect of Joyce’s literary production, if compared to the writer’s recognised prose masterpieces, seems to lay the foundations of the thematic and expressive course then developed by Joyce’s (lyrical) prose, evolving along a circular trajectory, rich in inter/intra-textual references. In particular, within the internal structure of the collection, we did identify a progressive integration of more literary-cultural codes, resulting in the coexistence of several semantic-expressive levels, representative of Joyce’s characteristic cultural-stylistic syncretism. The plot of Chamber Music, then, is not simply read as a stereotyped love affair, modelled on Elisabethan songbooks, but also as the process of personal and stylistic evolution of its protagonist, both lover and poet, being representative of Joyce’s first literary alter ego. KEYWORDS: James Joyce; Chamber Music; poetry; lyrical prose.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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