Sounding Modernism (eBook, ePUB)

Rhythm and Sonic Mediation in Modern Literature and Film
Redaktion: Murphet, Julian; Hone, Penelope; Groth, Helen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the transformations of sound in modern literary and cinematic forms from the 1890s to the mid-20th centuryThis volume brings together a range of essays by eminent and emergent scholars working at the intersection of modern literary, cinema and sound studies. The individual studies ask what specific sonorous qualities are capable of being registered by different modern media, and how sonic transpositions and transferences across media affect the ways in which human subjects attend to modern soundscapes. Script, groove, electrical current, magnetic imprint, phonographic vibration: as the contributors show, sound traverses these and other material platforms to become an insistent ground-note of modern aesthetics, one not yet adequately integrated into critical accounts of the period. This collection also provides a commanding and wide-ranging investigation of the conditions under which modernists tapped technically into the rhythms, echoes and sonic architectures of their worlds.Key FeaturesAddresses a growing demand for critical studies on the interface between literary history and the 'soundscape' of modernityDiscusses the rich nexus of new sound recording technologies, new vocabularies of and for sonic phenomena, new standardisations of rhythm and speed, and the weird displacements of 'voice' peculiar to modernityAnswers the need for an explicit engagement with the symbolic registrations of sonic modernity on textual forms in sound studiesSystematically analyses modernist forms in terms of their capacities to mediate rhythms, sonic textures and vocal derangements

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474416382
• Artikelnr.: 50401850

Autorenporträt

Julian Murphet is Scientia Professor in English and Film Studies at UNSW Australia. He is the author of Literature and Race in Los Angeles (2001), Multimedia Modernism (2009), and the forthcoming Faulkner's Media Romance. He has co-edited a number of collections, including Rancière and Literature (2016), Faulkner in the Media Ecology (2015), and Modernism and Masculinity (2014), and co-edits the journal Affirmations: of the modern. Helen Groth is Professor of English in the School of the Arts and Media at UNSW Australia. She is the author of Victorian Photography and Literary Nostalgia (2003), Moving Images: Nineteenth Century Reading and Screen Practices (2013), (with Natalya Lusty) Dreams and Modernity. A Cultural History (2013), Victorian Photography and Literary Nostalgia (2003) and the co-editor of Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and the Science of Mind (2014). Penelope Hone recently completed her PhD in English at UNSW Australia. Her research concentrates on the novel in the nineteenth century, with a particular interest in changing conceptions of the literary voice, noise and new media. She has previously published on George Eliot.

Inhaltsangabe

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.