Eardrums : Literary Modernism as Sonic Warfare.
"In this innovative study, Tyler Whitney demonstrates how a transformation and militarization of the civilian soundscape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries left indelible traces on the literature that defined the period. Both formally and thematically, the modernist aesthetics...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
Northwestern University Press,
2019.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Writing Sound across the Modernist Divide: Phonography, Acoustical Embodiment, and the Tympanic Regime; Chapter 1. Liliencron, Captain of the Nineteenth Century: Naturalism as Martial Phonography; Chapter 2. Bringing the War Home: Tympanic Transductions from the Battlefield to Fin-de-siècle Vienna; Chapter 3. Drumming Literature into the Ground: Dada's Tympanic Regime; Chapter 4. Toward a Modernist Ear: Robert Musil and the Poetics of Acoustic Space
- Chapter 5. Into the Inaudible: Sound and Imperception in Kafka's Late WritingsConclusion. Nazi Soundscapes and Their Reverberation in Postwar Culture; Notes; Works Cited; Index