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Resonant Alterities : Sound, Desire and Anxiety in Non-Realist Fiction /

"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 DeLillo are its pri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mieszkowski, Sylvia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2014]
Colección:Kultur- und Medientheorie.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Resonant Alterities; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Sound Studies
  • An Interdisciplinary Field; Literary Sound Studies; Resonant Alterities; Haunted by Sound:Vernon Lee, "A Wicked Voice"; Introduction; Resonant Texts; Literary Soundscapes; Implied Sound; Discursive Echo Chamber; Idolatrous Sounds; Scandalously Effeminate
  • Meltingly Foreign; Sedimented Anxieties; Desiring the Vocal Phallus; Sound is Power:Algernon Blackwood, The Human Chord; Introduction; Fin de Siècle Occultism; On Vibration: Sound in Occultism; On Vibration: Sound in Occult Fiction.
  • Occultist Science
  • Scientific OccultismDissolved Division; First Identity Experiment: Voice; Second Identity Experiment: Pattern; Partial Evocation; Names as Words of Power; First Scene of Uttering: the Dangers of Calling; Vocal Technique Between Occultism & Science; Second Scene of Uttering: the Bliss of Being Called; The Name of God; Noise, Silence and Oedipus: J.G. Ballard, "The Sound Sweep"; Introduction; Sonic Waste & Sonic Weapons; Noise, the Avant-Garde & Ultrasonic Music; Noise; Technology; Playing With Tradition; Ultrasonic Music & Muzak; Ultrasonic Music & Silence.
  • Cruel Mothers, Cruel CrowdsHate Speech; The Voice as Ambivalent Object; Auditory Hallucination & Vocal Jouissance; Air To Sounds, Sounds To Words: Don DeLillo, The Body Artist; Introduction; First Failure of comNmuOnicIatiSonE: What?; Second Failure of comNmuOnicIatiSonE: The Noise; Noise
  • Voice
  • Chant; The Visual & The Aural
  • Legacies of Modernism; Second Person Narration & Self-Awareness; Voice
  • Gender
  • Loss; Sonic Symptom; Aural Fort/Da; Gender
  • De-Gendering
  • Empowerment; Conclusion; Bibliography.