Autieri, Arianna. 2025. James Joyce’s Music Performed: “Sirens” fugue in Experimental Re-translation. Cambridge: Legenda. ISBN 9781839543043 [Book] (In Press)

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Fugues are complex musical compositions whose intricate contrapuntal texture enchants listeners and performers alike: but how can they be composed from written words, silent on the pages of a book? When James Joyce said that, in the ‘Sirens’ episode of Ulysses (1922), he aimed to write a fugue, he left his critics and readers wondering about the musical nature of the episode, as well as about the success of his musical intent. In this lucid interdisciplinary study, Arianna Autieri, a musician and translation scholar, interrogates Joyce’s ‘Sirens’ from the standpoint of the (re)translator, investigating how experimental translation can serve as a performative answer to Joyce’s famous musical conundrum.

Item Type:	Book
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Departments, Centres and Research Units:	English and Comparative Literature
Date:	2025
Item ID:	36864
Date Deposited:	17 Jun 2024 14:52
Last Modified:	12 Aug 2024 12:57
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/36864

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