Julie Beth Napolin

The Fact of Resonance

Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form

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Produktbeschreibung

The Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed, seeking in sound an alternative premise for theorizing modernist narrative form. The book shows how the experience of reading is undergirded by the sonic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 587g
• ISBN-13: 9780823288168
• ISBN-10: 0823288161
• Artikelnr.: 57584056

Autorenporträt

Julie Beth Napolin

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Abbreviations ix
Overture: The Sound of a Novel 1
1 Voice at the Threshold of the Audible: Free Indirect Discourse
and the Colonial Space of Reading 13
Coda: Chantal Akerman and Lip Sync as Postcolonial Strategy 59
2 The Echo of the Object: On the Pain of Self-Hearing in The Nigger
of the "Narcissus" and "The Fact of Blackness" 67
Coda: Literary History as Miscegenating Sound: The Sound and the Fury 103
Intersonority: Unclaimed Voices Circum-1900, or Sound and Sourcelessness
in The Souls of Black Folk 115
3 A Sinister Resonance: On the Extraction of Sound and Language
in Heart of Darkness 149
Reprise: Reverberation, Circumambience, and Form-Seeking Sound
(Absalom, Absalom!) 211
Acknowledgments 231
Notes 235
Bibliography 309
Index 331