Napolin The Fact of Resonance

Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8819-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Napolin, Julie Beth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Napolin Julie Beth:
Julie Beth Napolin is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities in the Literature Program at The New School. She has published on sound, media, and literature in qui parle, Symploke, Sounding Out!, and Social Text and in such volumes as Vibratory Modernism, Sounding Modernism, and Fifty Years after Faulkner. In 2012 she was awarded a Bruce Harkness Young Scholar Award by the Joseph Conrad Society of America.Julie Beth Napolin is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities in the Literature Program at The New School. She has published on sound, media, and literature in qui parle, Symploke, Sounding Out!, and Social Text and in such volumes as Vibratory Modernism, Sounding Modernism, and Fifty Years after Faulkner. In 2012 she was awarded a Bruce Harkness Young Scholar Award by the Joseph Conrad Society of America.