Dunn / Jones

Embodied Voices

Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture
Herausgeber: Dunn, Leslie C.; Jones, Nancy A.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Embodied Voices explores cultural manifestations of female vocality in light of current theories of subjectivity, the body and sexual difference. The fourteen essays collected here examine a wide spectrum of discourses, including myth, literature, music, film, psychoanalysis, and critical theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780521585835
• ISBN-10: 052158583X
• Artikelnr.: 22459318

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Vocality, Textuality, and the Silencing of the Female
Voice: 1. The Gorgon and the nightingale: the voice of female lament and
Pindar's Twelfth Pythian Ode; 2. Music and the maternal voice in Purgatorio
XIX; 3. Ophelia's songs in Hamlet: music, madness and the feminine; 4.
Wordsworth and Romantic voice: the poet's song and the prostitute's cry;
Part II. Anxieties of Audition: 5. 'No women are indeed': the boy actor as
vocal seductress in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century drama; 6.
Deriding the voice of Jeanette MacDonald: notes on psychoanalysis and the
American film musical; 7. Adorno and the Sirens: tele-phono-graphic bodies;
Part III. Women Artists: Vocality and Cultural Authority: 8. The diva
doesn't die: George Eliot's Armgart; 9. Rewriting Ophelia: fluidity,
madness, and the voice in Louise Colet's La Servante; 10. Staring the
camera down: direct address and women's voices; 11. The voice of lament:
female vocality and performative efficacy in the Finnish-Karelian
itkuvirsi; Part IV. Maternal Voices: 12. The lyrical dimensions of
spirituality: music, voice, and language in the novels of Toni Morrison;
13. Red hot mamas: Bessie Smith, Sophie Tucker, and the ethnic maternal
voice in American popular song; 14. Maternalism and the material girl Nancy
J. Vickers.