As a concept, 'trauma' has attracted a great deal of interest in literary studies. A key term in psychoanalytic approaches to literary study, trauma theory represents a critical approach that enables new modes of reading and of listening. It is a leading concept of our time, app…
As a concept, 'trauma' has attracted a great deal of interest in literary studies. A key term in psychoanalytic approaches to literary study, trauma theory represents a critical approach that enables new modes of reading and of listening. It is a leading concept of our time, app…
What does it mean to write in and about sound? How can literature, seemingly a silent, visual medium, be sound-bearing? This volume considers these questions by attending to the energy generated by the sonic in literary studies from the late nineteenth century to the present. So…
Introduction: Anna Snaith -- Part I. Origins: Chapter 1. Hearing and the Senses / Sam Halliday -- Chapter 2. Fragments on/of Voice / David Nowell Smith -- Chapter 3. Sonic Forms: Ezra Pound's Anti-Metronome Modernism in Context / Jason David Hall -- Chapter 4. Classical Music an…
"A week after the end of WW2 a nightingale begins to sing in the darkness of a northwest London park. 'Figures of listeners' appear in the nearby lighted windows.1 Part of the 'emanations of peacetime', the mellifluous whistles and trills transfix but also unsettle those within …