Sounding the novel : voice in twenty-first century American fiction / Nathalie Aghoro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aghoro, Nathalie, author.

Series:

American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 294.

American studies : a mongraph series ; volume 294

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voice in literature.

American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Powers, Richard, 1957- Echo maker.

Powers, Richard.

Powers, Richard, 1957-. Time of our singing.

Yamashita, Karen Tei, 1951- I hotel.

Yamashita, Karen Tei.

Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977- Extremely loud & incredibly close.

Foer, Jonathan Safran.

Egan, Jennifer. Visit from the goon squad.

Egan, Jennifer.

Extremely loud & incredibly close (Foer, Jonathan Safran).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

258 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2018]

Summary:

"Sounding the Novel investigates how American fiction in the early twenty-first century registers the sonic mediality of voice. It looks at ways in which novels enlist the reader's auditory imagination to establish literary soundscapes where the sound of a voice becomes the main driver for the development of the story and for narrative experimentation. With its focus on novels written after 2000 by Richard Powers, Karen Tei Yamashita, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Jennifer Egan, this study examines the aesthetic and discursive investment in the acoustics of voice as a constitutive part of contemporary literary imaginaries. Drawing on literary theory, sound studies, and philosophy of voice, Sounding the Novel discusses how written representations of vocal expression explore the socio-cultural functions of its resonance and its material impact as a corporeal medium in the context of U.S. auditory cultures."--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction: listening as literary practice

Sounding voices

The scream and the word: (non)human voices in Richard Powers' The echo maker

Singing time: vocal performance and temporality in Richard Powers' The time of our singing

Listening for voice

Polyphonic soundscapes: vocal resonance and place in Karen Tei Yamashita's I hotel

A listening self: vocal sound event and intersubjectivity in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely loud and incredibly close

By way of conclusion: silence in Jennifer Egan's A visit from the goon squad.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-258).

ISBN:

9783825369163

3825369161

OCLC:

1077561671

Publisher Number:

99980272947