
Breathless
Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and the Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia
Allen S. Weiss(Author)
Wesleyan University Press
Published on 15. December 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
170 pages
978-0-8195-6592-1 (ISBN)
Description
Breathless explores early sound recording and the literature that both foreshadowed its invention and was contemporaneous with its early years, revealing the broad influence of this new technology at the very origins of Modernism. Through close readings of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Stephane Mallarme, Charles Cros, Paul Valery, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Jules Verne, and Antonin Artaud, Allen S. Weiss shows how sound recording's uncanny confluence of human and machine would transform our expectations of mourning and melancholia, transfiguring our intimate relation to death. Interdisciplinary, the book bridges poetry and literature, theology and metaphysics. As Breathless shows, the symbolic and practical roles of poetry and technology were transformed as new forms of nostalgia and eroticism arose.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
264 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8195-6592-1 (9780819565921)
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Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and The Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia
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Allen S. Weiss teaches in the Departments of Performance Studies and Cinema Studies at New York University, and is author and editor of over twenty books including Phantasmic Radio (1995).