Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

ISBN-13: 9780415883528 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 266 str.

Matthew Rubery

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Foreword, Charles Bernstein  Introduction: Talking Books, Matthew Rubery  Part 1: Sound Experiments  1. The Three-Minute Victorian Novel: Remediating Dickens into Sound, Jason Camlot  2. A Library on the Air: Literary Dramatization and Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre, James Jesson  3. The Audiographic Impulse: Doing Literature with the Tape Recorder, Jesper Olsson  4. Poetry by Phone and Phonograph: Tracing the Influence of Giorno Poetry Systems, Michael S. Hennessey  5. Soundtracking the Novel: Willy Vlautin’s Northline as Filmic Audiobook, Justin St. Clair  Part 2: Close Listenings  6. Novelist as "Sound-Thief": The Audiobooks of John le Carré, Garrett Stewart  7. Hearing Hardy, Talking Tolstoy: The Audiobook Narrator’s Voice and Reader Experience, Sara Knox  8. Talking Books, Toni Morrison, and the Transformation of Narrative Authority: Two Frameworks, K. C. Harrisson  9. Obama’s Voices: Performance and Politics on the Dreams from My Father Audiobook, Jeffrey Severs  10. Bedtime Storytelling Revisited: Le Père Castor and Children’s Audiobooks, Brigitte Ouvry-Vial  11. Learning from LibriVox, Michael Hancher  12. A Preliminary Phenomenology of the Audiobook, D. E. Wittkower

O autorze

Matthew Rubery is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News (Oxford, 2009), which won the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) First Book Award 2010. His article "Play It Again, Sam Weller: New Digital Audiobooks and Old Ways of Reading" appeared in the Journal of Victorian Culture in 2008.