Novel Sounds - Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll

Zusatztext A pleasing option for readers who enjoy celebrated music writers like [Greil] Marcus or Peter Guralnick. Informationen zum Autor Florence Dore is professor of English at the University of North Carolina! Chapel Hill. She is the author of The Novel and the Obscene: Sexual Subjects in American Modernism (2005). Her rock album Perfect City was released on Slewfoot Records (2001). Klappentext Novel Sounds shows how Southern writers turned to rock music and its technologies-tape! radio! vinyl-to develop the "rock novel." Florence Dore considers the work of writers like William Faulkner! Flannery O'Connor! and William Styron alongside Bessie Smith! Lead Belly! and Bob Dylan to uncover deep historical links between rock and literature. Zusammenfassung Novel Sounds shows how Southern writers turned to rock music and its technologies—tape, radio, vinyl—to develop the “rock novel.” Florence Dore considers the work of writers like William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and William Styron alongside Bessie Smith, Lead Belly, and Bob Dylan to uncover deep historical links between rock and literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction. Minstrel Realism at the Birth of Rock 1. Fugitives and Futility: Agrarian Ballad Novels in Bob Dylan's Moment 2. New Critical Noise in Music City: Thomas Pynchon's William Faulkner 3. The Ballad's Gender: Femininity and Information in Georgia 4. The Lead Belly Thing: William Styron's Records Coda. Nobel Sounds: Bob Dylan's Novel Prize Notes Bibliography Discography Filmography Index

Product details

• Authors: Florence Dore, Dore Florence
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780231185233
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18523-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Regional, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000