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Resonant alterities : sound, desire and anxiety in non-realist fiction / Sylvia Mieszkowski.
Van Pelt Library PR5115.P2 Z743 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mieszkowski, Sylvia, author.
- Series:
- Cultural and media studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935--Criticism and interpretation.
- Lee, Vernon.
- Blackwood, Algernon, 1869-1951--Criticism and interpretation.
- Blackwood, Algernon.
- Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009--Criticism and interpretation.
- Ballard, J. G.
- DeLillo, Don--Criticism and interpretation.
- DeLillo, Don.
- Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009.
- Blackwood, Algernon, 1869-1951.
- Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935.
- English fiction--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Sound in literature.
- Senses and sensation in literature.
- Noise in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 402 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld : Transcript, [2014]
- Summary:
- "Resonant Alterities" bridges the gap between sound studies and literary criticism. A queer ghost story by Vernon Lee, an occultist novel of psychic adventure by Algernon Blackwood, a dystopian science fiction tale by J.G. Ballard and a post-traumatic short novel by Don OeLillo are its primary objects of analysis. Each is explored within the context of its contemporary cultural debates on sound. Meanwhile, all four theory-enriched readings focus on intersecting and desire-laden processes of meaning making, knowledge production and subject formation. Focal points are aurally/audio-visually structured phenomena expressive of both collective and individual anxieties. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Haunted by Sound: Vernon Lee, "A Wicked Voice"
- Introduction 41
- Resonant Texts 46
- Literary Soundscapes 58
- Implied Sound 70
- Discursive Echo Chamber 82
- Idolatrous Sounds 84
- Scandalously Effeminate - Meltingly Foreign 90
- Sedimented Anxieties 95
- Desiring the Vocal Phallus 108
- Sound is Power: Algernon Blackwood, The Human Chord
- Introduction 115
- Fin de Siècle Occultism 120
- On Vibration: Sound in Occultism 132
- On Vibration: Sound in Occult Fiction 139
- Occultist Science - Scientific Occultism 146
- Dissolved Division 149
- First Identity Experiment: Voice 153
- Second Identity Experiment: Pattern 162
- Partial Evocation 165
- Names as Words of Power 170
- First Scene of Uttering: the Dangers of Calling 177
- Vocal Technique Between Occultism & Science 186
- Second Scene of Uttering: the Bliss of Being Called 190
- The Name of God 195
- Noise, Silence and Oedipus: J.G. Ballard, "The Sound Sweep"
- Introduction 211
- Sonic Waste & Sonic Weapons 218
- Noise, the Avant-Garde & Ultrasonic Music 231
- Noise 233
- Technology 237
- Playing With Tradition 242
- Ultrasonic Music & Muzak 245
- Ultrasonic Music & Silence 247
- Cruel Mothers, Cruel Crowds 252
- Hate Speech 260
- The Voice as Ambivalent Object 273
- Auditory Hallucination & Vocal Jouissance 284
- Air To Sounds, Sounds To Words: Don DeLillo, The Body Artist
- Introduction 301
- First Failure of comNmuOnicIatiSonE: What? 304
- Second Failure of comNmuOnicIatiSonE: The Noise 309
- Noise - Voice - Chant 313
- The Visual & The Aural - Legacies of Modernism 318
- Second Person Narration & Self-Awareness 334
- Voice - Gender - Loss 342
- Sonic Symptom 346
- Aural Fort/Da 352
- Gender - De-Gendering - Empowerment 360.
- Notes:
- Originally presented as the author's habilitation--Universität Frankfurt am Main.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783837622027
- 3837622029
- OCLC:
- 895658301
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