Sounding Modernism: Rhythm and Sonic Mediation in Modern Literature and Film

ISBN-13: 9781474437721 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 264 str.

Julian Murphet; Helen Groth; Penelope Hone

Opis

This volume brings together a range of essays by eminent and emergent scholars working at the intersection of modern literary, cinema and sound studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Sounding Modernism 1890–1950; Part I: Writing Modern Sounds; 2. On Not Listening To Modernism, Julian Murphet; 3. Advocating Auricularisation: Virginia Woolf’s ‘In The Orchard’, Tom Vandevelde; Part II: Mediated Voices; 4. Bottled Bands: Automatic Music and American Media Publics, Lisa Gitelman; 5. How to Listen to Joyce: Gramophones, Voice and the Limits of Mediation, Helen Groth; 6. Sounding Region, Writing Accent: A. G. Street and the BBC, Debra Rae Cohen; 7. Partial to Opera: Sounding Willa Cather’s Empty Rooms, John Plotz; 8. Elliptical Sound: Audibility and the Space of Reading, Julie Beth Napolin; Part III: Difficult Voices; 9. Harsh Sounds: George Gissing’s Penetrating Literary Voice, Penelope Hone; 10. Body and Soul: Modernism, Metaphysics, Rhyme, Sean Pryor; 11. Listening to the Late Cantos, Kristin Grogan; Part IV: Modern Rhythm: Writing, Sound, Cinema; 12. The Rhythms of Character in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Miss Brill’, Helen Rydstrand; 13. The Rhythm of the Rails: Sound and Locomotion, Laura Marcus; 14. Two-step, Nerve-tap, Tanglefoot: Tapdance Typologies in Cinema, Steven Connor; Bibliography.