Hearing things : the work of sound in literature /

Hearing Things is a meditation on sound's work in literature. Drawing on the writings of critics and philosophers but especially on the comments of many poets and novelists who have pointed to the role of the ear in writing and reading, it offers a reconsideration of literature itself as an exe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leighton, Angela, 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
Temas:
Senses and sensation in literature.
Hearing.
Spoken word poetry.
Sens et sensations dans la littérature.
Création parlée.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
Hearing
Senses and sensation in literature
Spoken word poetry
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sound's work: an introduction
  • Listening thresholds
  • Tennyson's hum
  • Humming Tennyson: Christina Rossetti and Virginia Woolf
  • Pennies and horse-play: W.B. Yeats's recalls
  • "Coo-ee:" calling Walter de la Mare, Edward Thomas, Robert Frost
  • A book, a face, a phantom: Walter de la Mare's "The green room"
  • Hearing something: Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorie Graham
  • "Wherever you listen from:" W.S. Graham's art of the letter
  • Incarnations in the ear: hearing presence in Les Murray
  • Justifying time in ticks and tocks
  • Poetry's knowing: so what do we know?

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