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Sonic Modernity

Sam Halliday
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      In this thoughtful and engaging study, Sam Halliday reveals the many roles and forms of sound in modernism. Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Figures discussed include canonical writers such as Joyce, Richardson, and Woolf; relatively neglected writers such as Henry Roth and Bryher; and a whole host of musicians, artists, and other commentators, including Wagner, Schoenberg, Kandinsky, Adorno, and Benjamin. Conceptually as well as topically diverse, the book engages issues such as city noise and 'foreign' accents, representations of sound in 'silent' cinema, the relationship of music to language, and the effects of technology on sonic production and reception.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Sam Halliday EAN: 9780748627622 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Edinburgh University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-08-31 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Children’s and teenage literature studies: general, Popular culture

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      Sam Halliday teaches in the Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity (2007).
      In this thoughtful and engaging study, Sam Halliday reveals the many roles and forms of sound in modernism. Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Figures discussed include canonical writers such as Joyce, Richardson, and Woolf; relatively neglected writers such as Henry Roth and Bryher; and a whole host of musicians, artists, and other commentators, including Wagner, Schoenberg, Kandinsky, Adorno, and Benjamin. Conceptually as well as topically diverse, the book engages issues such as city noise and 'foreign' accents, representations of sound in 'silent' cinema, the relationship of music to language, and the effects of technology on sonic production and reception.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Sam Halliday EAN: 9780748627622 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Edinburgh University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-08-31 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Children’s and teenage literature studies: general, Popular culture

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      Sam Halliday teaches in the Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity (2007).

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