Sound and Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sound and Literature write by Anna Snaith. This book was released on 2020-06-18. Sound and Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What does it mean to write in and about sound? How can literature, seemingly a silent, visual medium, be sound-bearing? This volume considers these questions by attending to the energy generated by the sonic in literary studies from the late nineteenth century to the present. Sound, whether understood as noise, music, rhythm, voice or vibration, has long shaped literary cultures and their scholarship. In original chapters written by leading scholars in the field, this book tunes in to the literary text as a site of vocalisation, rhythmics and dissonance, as well as an archive of soundscapes, modes of listening, and sound technologies. Sound and Literature is unique for the breadth and plurality of its approach, and for its interrogation and methodological mapping of the field of literary sound studies.
Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies write by Matthew Rubery. This book was released on 2011-05-09. Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Recent advances in sound technology make this an opportune moment to reflect on the evolution of our reading practices since this remarkable invention. Some questions addressed by the collection include: How does auditory literature adapt printed texts? What skills in close listening are necessary for its reception? What are the social consequences of new listening technologies? In sum, the essays gathered together by this collection explore the extent to which the audiobook enables us not just to hear literature but to hear it in new ways. Bringing together a set of reflections on the enrichments and impoverishments of the reading experience brought about by developments in sound technology, this collection spans the earliest adaptations of printed texts into sound by Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and other novelists from the late nineteenth century to recordings by contemporary figures such as Toni Morrison and Barack Obama at the turn of the twenty-first century. As the voices gathered here suggest, it is time to give a hearing to one of the most talked about new media of the past century.
Sound Recording Technology and American Literature
Sound Recording Technology and American Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sound Recording Technology and American Literature write by Jessica E. Teague. This book was released on 2021-05-20. Sound Recording Technology and American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Phonographs, tapes, stereo LPs, digital remix - how did these remarkable technologies impact American writing? This book explores how twentieth-century writers shaped the ways we listen in our multimedia present. Uncovering a rich new archive of materials, this book offers a resonant reading of how writers across several genres, such as John Dos Passos, Langston Hughes, William S. Burroughs, and others, navigated the intermedial spaces between texts and recordings. Numerous scholars have taken up remix - a term co-opted from DJs and sound engineers - as the defining aesthetic of twenty-first century art and literature. Others have examined modernism's debt to the phonograph. But in the gap between these moments, one finds that the reciprocal relationship between the literary arts and sonic technologies continued to evolve over the twentieth century. A mix of American literary history, sound studies, and media archaeology, this interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars, students, and audiophiles.
Hearing Things
Hearing Things - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hearing Things write by Angela Leighton. This book was released on 2018-05-07. Hearing Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hearing Things is a meditation on sound’s work in literature. Drawing on critical works and the commentaries of many poets and novelists who have paid close attention to the role of the ear in writing and reading, Angela Leighton offers a reconsideration of literature itself as an exercise in hearing. An established critic and poet, Leighton explains how we listen to the printed word, while showing how writers use the expressivity of sound on the silent page. Although her focus is largely on poets—Alfred Tennyson, W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorie Graham, and Alice Oswald—Leighton’s scope includes novels, letters, and philosophical writings as well. Her argument is grounded in the specificity of the text under discussion, but one important message emerges from the whole: literature by its very nature commands listening, and listening is a form of understanding that has often been overlooked. Hearing Things offers a renewed call for the kind of criticism that, avoiding the programmatic or purely ideological, remains alert to the work of sound in every literary text.
Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense
Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense write by Laurence Perrine. This book was released on 1974. Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
