Sound Writing - Experimental Modernism and the Poetics of Articulation

"This book examines how writers and artists from the 1870s to the 1960s turned their attention to the physical process of spoken language. Their goal was to capture this vocal-acoustic phenomenon-the bodily articulation of sound-in legible form. At stake was a crossing-over from the audible to the visible, from speech to notation, from body to trace. This book shows how the search for such possibilities-and the various media, techniques, and concepts employed-transformed the age-old genre of poetry into a site of radical linguistic experimentation"--

About the author

Tobias Wilke is a Heisenberg Researcher at the Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin. He is the author and editor of several books in German.

Product details

• Authors: Tobias Wilke
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780226817750
• ISBN: 978-0-226-81775-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; The arts: general issues, ART / Criticism & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, The arts: general topics