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Article: Joyce and Wagner: A Study of Influence.
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- June 1, 1994
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Joyce and Wagner takes as its subject a composer's influence on a novelist's career and writings. Although the lives of Richard Wagner and James Joyce overlapped chronologically by scarcely a year (in 1882-83), Wagnerian residues are still to be found in Joyce's last and biggest book, Finnegans Wake (New York: Viking Press, 1939). For Joyce as for others of his artistic generation -- a group born in 1881-83 that includes Bela Bartok, Anton Webern, Igor Stravinsky, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Alexis Leger, Franz Kafka, and Virginia Woolf -- "Wagner's position in early twentieth-century culture made him virtually inescapable", though in another sense he was already ...
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