Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts - Couverture souple

Halliday, Sam

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0748627626 ISBN 13 : 9780748627622

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Reveals the many roles and forms of sound in modernism. Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Figures discussed include canonical writers such as Joyce, Richardson, and Woolf; relatively neglected writers such as Henry Roth and Bryher; and a whole host of musicians, artists, and other commentators, including Wagner, Schoenberg, Kandinsky, Adorno, and Benjamin. Conceptually as well as topically diverse, the book engages issues such as city noise and 'foreign' accents, representations of sound in 'silent' cinema, the relationship of music to language, and the effects of technology on sonic production and reception.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sam Halliday is Lecturer at the Queen Mary, University of London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0748627626
• ISBN 13: 9780748627622
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible