David Toop (UK London College of Communication)

Sinister Resonance

The Mediumship of the Listener

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Deciphers sounds and silences buried within the ghostly horrors of Arthur Machen, Shirley Jackson, Charles Dickens, M R James and Edgar Allen Poe, Dutch genre painting from Rembrandt to Vermeer, artists as diverse as Francis Bacon and Juan Munoz, and the writing of many modernist authors including Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and James Joyce.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 141mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9781441155870
• ISBN-10: 1441155872
• Artikelnr.: 33935224

Autorenporträt

David Toop

Inhaltsangabe

Section one: Aerial
1. Drowned by voices
2. Each echoing opening; each muffled closure
3. Dark senses
4. Writhing sigla
5. The jagged dog
Section two: Vessels and Volumes
6. Act of silence
7. Art of silence
8. A conversation piece
Section three: Spectral
9. Chair creaks, but no one sits there
Section four: Interior Resonance
10. Snow falling on snow
Coda: Distant Voices
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index