Sound and Literature

This volume maps and interrogates the significance of sound as a central concept in literary studies.

List of contents

Part I. Origins: 1. Hearing and the senses Sam Halliday; 2. Fragments on/of voice David Nowell Smith; 3. Sonic forms: Ezra Pound's anti-metronome modernism in context Jason David Hall; 4. Classical music and literature Gemma Moss; 5. Aesthetics, music, noise Brad Bucknell; Part II. Development: 6. Literary soundscapes Helen Groth; 7. Noise James G. Mansell; 8. 'Lost in music': wild notes and organized sound Paul Gilroy; 9. Media history and sound technology Julie Beth Napolin; Part III. Applications: 10. What we talk about when we talk about talking books Edward Allen; 11. Prose sense and its soundings Garrett Stewart; 12. Dissonant prosody A. J. Carruthers; 13. Deafness and sound Rebecca Sanchez; 14. Vibrations Shelley Trower; 15. Feminism and sound Ella Finer; 16. Wireless imaginations Debra Rae Cohen; 17. Attending to theatre sound studies and Complicite's The Encounter Adrian Curtin; 18: Bob Dylan and sound: a tale of the recording era Barry J. Faulk.

Summary

Sound and Literature will be invaluable to students and scholars working in a range of disciplines: literary studies, sound studies, musico-literary studies, sensory history and media studies. The range of approaches to literary sound - such as music, noise, voice, vibration and deafness - make this book unique for its comprehensive mapping of the field.

Product details

• Authors: Anna (King''''s College London) Snaith
• Assisted by: Anna Snaith (Editor), Snaith Anna (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781108479608
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47960-8
• No. of pages: 438
• Series: Cambridge Critical Concepts
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Media Studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000