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Repetition and Reflexivism in “The Dead”
Title: Repetition and Reflexivism in “The Dead”
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 1068 | Pages: 4.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Repetition and Reflexivism in “The Dead”
James Joyce’s “The Dead” experiments with properties that associate with musical counterpoint, where “one melody is accompanied by one or more other melodies all woven into a harmonious whole” (“counterpoint”). In music, two separate notes in a chord form a harmony, while in “The Dead,” Joyce uses two separate topics that are in the same music, life, but not part of the same note. Joyce uses repetition to emphasize the importance of certain aspects …showed first 75 words of 1068 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1068 total…on the exterior too much can detract from the essence or the literal meaning. Art, whether music or stories, must be the object of itself where the beauty lies within simplicity. Music and writing can do this through its form and how it is structured. The words are only images until someone gives them meaning. Therefore, meaning is never lost, it is gained and literal meaning is never lost either, its form has just expanded.
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