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. The book shows how the experience of reading is undergirded by the sonic

Bibliographische Detailangaben

1. Verfasser:	Napolin, Julie Beth 1978- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Fordham University Press 2020
Ausgabe:	First edition
Schriftenreihe:	Idiom: inventing writing theory
Schlagworte:	Literaturtheorie Roman Klang > Motiv Prosa
Zusammenfassung:	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. The book shows how the experience of reading is undergirded by the sonic Cover -- THE FACT OF RESONANCE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Note on Abbreviations -- Overture: The Sound of a Novel -- 1 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 -- 2 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 -- 3 A Sinister Resonance: On the Extraction of Sound and Language in Heart of Darkness -- Reprise: Reverberation, Circumambience, and Form-Seeking Sound (Absalom, Absalom!) -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Beschreibung:	Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Beschreibung:	ix, 345 Seiten Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele
ISBN:	9780823288168