Resonant Alterities - Sound, Desire and Anxiety in Non-Realist Fiction

»Resonant Alterities« bridges the gap between sound studies and literary criticism. A queer ghost story by Vernon Lee, an occultist novel of psychic adventure by Algernon Blackwood, a dystopian science fiction tale by J.G. Ballard and a post-traumatic short novel by Don DeLillo are its primary objects of analysis. Each is explored within the context of its contemporary cultural debates on sound. Meanwhile, all four theory-enriched readings focus on intersecting and desire-laden processes of meaning making, knowledge production and subject formation. Focal points are aurally/audio-visually structured phenomena expressive of both collective and individual anxieties.

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The Chronicle, 01.05.2015

Product details

• Authors: Sylvia Mieszkowski
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.11.2014
• EAN: 9783837622027
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-2202-7
• No. of pages: 402
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 225 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 603 g
• Series: Kultur- und Medientheorie
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general)