TY - BOOK AU - Murphet,Julian AU - Connor,Steven AU - Gitelman,Lisa AU - Grogan,Kristin AU - Groth,Helen AU - Hone,Penelope AU - Marcus,Laura AU - Murphet,Julian AU - Napolin,Julie Beth AU - Plotz,John AU - Pryor,Sean AU - Rae Cohen,Debra AU - Rydstrand,Helen AU - Vandevelde,Tom TI - Sounding Modernism: Rhythm and Sonic Mediation in Modern Literature and Film SN - 9781474416368 AV - PN56.S6665 A97 2017 U1 - 121/.35 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Sound (Philosophy) KW - Congresses KW - Sound in literature KW - Sound in motion pictures KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; 1 Introduction: Sounding Modernism 1890-1950 --; Part One Writing Modern Sound --; 2 On Not Listening to Modernism --; 3 Advocating Auricularisation: Virginia Woolf's 'In The Orchard' --; Part Two Mediated Voices --; 4 Bottled Bands: Automatic Music and American Media Publics --; 5 How to Listen to Joyce: Gramophones, Voice and the Limits of Mediation --; 6 Sounding Region, Writing Accent: A. G. Street and the BBC --; 7 Partial to Opera: Sounding Willa Cather's Empty Rooms --; 8. Elliptical Sound: Audibility and the Space of Reading --; Part Three Difficult Voices --; 9 Harsh Sounds: George Gissing's Penetrating Literary Voice --; 10 Body and Soul: Modernism, Metaphysics, Rhyme --; 11 Listening to the Late Cantos --; Part Four Modern Rhythm: Writing, Sound, Cinema --; 12 The Rhythms of Character in Katherine Mansfield's 'Miss Brill' --; 13 The Rhythm of the Rails: Sound and Locomotion --; 14 Two-step, Nerve-tap, Tanglefoot: Tapdance Typologies in Cinema --; Contributors --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Explores the transformations of sound in modern literary and cinematic forms from the 1890s to the mid-20th centuryThis volume brings together a range of essays by eminent and emergent scholars working at the intersection of modern literary, cinema and sound studies. The individual studies ask what specific sonorous qualities are capable of being registered by different modern media, and how sonic transpositions and transferences across media affect the ways in which human subjects attend to modern soundscapes. Script, groove, electrical current, magnetic imprint, phonographic vibration: as the contributors show, sound traverses these and other material platforms to become an insistent ground-note of modern aesthetics, one not yet adequately integrated into critical accounts of the period. This collection also provides a commanding and wide-ranging investigation of the conditions under which modernists tapped technically into the rhythms, echoes and sonic architectures of their worlds.Key FeaturesAddresses a growing demand for critical studies on the interface between literary history and the 'soundscape' of modernityDiscusses the rich nexus of new sound recording technologies, new vocabularies of and for sonic phenomena, new standardisations of rhythm and speed, and the weird displacements of 'voice' peculiar to modernityAnswers the need for an explicit engagement with the symbolic registrations of sonic modernity on textual forms in sound studiesSystematically analyses modernist forms in terms of their capacities to mediate rhythms, sonic textures and vocal derangements UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474416375?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474416375 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474416375/original ER -