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Audio Book: Essays on Sound Technologies in Narrative Fiction

Audio Book: Essays on Sound Technologies in Narrative Fiction

Keskinen, Mikko

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0739118315
ISBN13: 9780739118313
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Apr 1 2008
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.31
Language: English

Audio Book deals with the ways in which the auditory-voices, sounds, noises-is represented in postphonograph narrative fiction. More specifically, it examines how the various technologies enabling the transmission or storing of sound and voice are figured in selected prose works. Drawing from contemporary American, British, French, and German literature, the author discusses these use of these technologies in Nicholson Baker's Vox, Michel Tournier's Tristan Vox, Heinrich Böll's Murke's Collected Silences, Don DeLillo's The Body Artist, Nick Hornby's High Fidelity, and Sylvia Brownrigg's The Metaphysical Touch. The texts foreground sound technologies (the telephone, radio, tape recorder, answering machine, record player, or, counterintuitively, e-mail) in their narration and manifest important aspects of audio in literature. In prior criticism, these texts have not been systematically read from media-technological perspectives.

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