What is it about?
This paper looks at how James Joyce attempted to adapt musical counterpoint in literature, and how Anthony Burgess took those literary experiments and attempted to perfect them.
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Why is it important?
The search for an analogue to musical counterpoint in literature has been a modernist obsession. This paper demonstrates that Anthony Burgess managed to achieve it.
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This page is a summary of: The ‘Baroque Weaving Machine’: Contrasting Counterpoint in James Joyce and Anthony Burgess, January 2015, Nature,
DOI: 10.1057/9781137503626_8.
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