- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Text I
- Introduction
- Text II
- I Centaur-songs: Romanticism and broken forms
- Text III
- 2 Singing the unspeakable
- Text IV
- 3 ‘God was in France all Friday’: incoherence from the inside
- Text V
- 4 Sea-changes: minimal texts as regenerative forms
- Text VI
- 5 Forgetting as in(ter)vention: memory and context in very short songs
- Text VII*
- 6 Beating time: resistance and the subaltern voice in prison work songs
- Text VIII
- 7 Fragments and fringes: the view from the centre
- Text IX*
- 8 The intertextuality of the song fragment
- Text X*
- Conclusion
- Text XI
- Intertexts: contexts
- Works cited
- Index of songs
- General index
The intertextuality of the song fragment
The intertextuality of the song fragment
- Chapter:
- (p.186) (p.187) 8 The intertextuality of the song fragment
- Source:
- Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song
- Author(s):
Mary-Ann Constantine
Gerald Porter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter discusses the way song fragments function in the work of four novelists: James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Christina Stead, and Charles Dickens. It considers silencing, particularly of women, as an aspect of fragmentation. It shows that women have long been associated with silence, despite having a cultural stereotype of garrulousness. The chapter also determines that intertexts empower the reader due to the ‘multi-accentuality’ of cultural texts and practices.
Keywords: song fragments, silencing, cultural stereotypes, intertexts, women, cultural texts, cultural practices
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Text I
- Introduction
- Text II
- I Centaur-songs: Romanticism and broken forms
- Text III
- 2 Singing the unspeakable
- Text IV
- 3 ‘God was in France all Friday’: incoherence from the inside
- Text V
- 4 Sea-changes: minimal texts as regenerative forms
- Text VI
- 5 Forgetting as in(ter)vention: memory and context in very short songs
- Text VII*
- 6 Beating time: resistance and the subaltern voice in prison work songs
- Text VIII
- 7 Fragments and fringes: the view from the centre
- Text IX*
- 8 The intertextuality of the song fragment
- Text X*
- Conclusion
- Text XI
- Intertexts: contexts
- Works cited
- Index of songs
- General index
