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The Fact of Resonance : Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form /

The Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed, seeking in sound an alternative premise for theorizing modernist narrative form. Arguing that narrative theory has been founded on an exclusion of sound, the book poses a missing counte...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Napolin, Julie Beth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Edition:First edition.
Series:Idiom (Fordham University Press)
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Overture : the sound of a novel
  • Voice at the threshold of the audible : free indirect discourse and the colonial space of reading
  • Coda : Chantal Akerman and lip sync as postcolonial strategy
  • The echo of the object : on the pain of self-hearing in The nigger of the "Narcissus" and "The fact of blackness"
  • Coda : literary history as miscegenating sound : The sound and the fury
  • Intersonority : unclaimed voices circum-1900, or sound and sourcelessness in The souls of black folk
  • A sinister resonance : on the extraction of sound and language in Heart of darkness
  • Reprise : reverberation, circumambience, and form-seeking sound (Absalom, Absalom!)