
Sound
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James A. Steintrager is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and European Languages and Studies at the University of California, Irvine; he is the author, most recently, of The Autonomy of Pleasure: Libertines, License, and Sexual Revolution.
Content
Preface to the French Edition of 2010 xxvii
I. Hearing
1. Listening Awakes 3
2. The Ear 16
3. Sound and Time 29
II. A Divided World
4. Voice, Language, and Sounds 45
5. Noise and Music: A Legitimate Distinction? 55
III. The Wheel of Causes
6. The Sound That You Cause: Ergo-Audition 83
7. Sounds and Its Cause: Casual Listening and Figurative Listening 101
8. Sound and What It Causes: Real and Supposed Effects 121
IV. Sound Transformed
9. How Technology Has Changed Sound 131
10. The Audiovisual Couple in Film: Audio-Vision 150
V. Listening, Expressing
11. Object and Non-Object: Two Poles 169
12. Between Doing and Listening: Naming 212
Notes 243
Glossary 265
Bibliography 269
Index 275
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