Resonant Alterities
Sound, Desire and Anxiety in Non-Realist Fiction
1st Edition
Published on 15. November 2014
402 pages
978-3-8394-2202-1 (ISBN)
Description
»Resonant Alterities« bridges the gap between sound studies and literary criticism. A queer ghost story by Vernon Lee, an occultist novel of psychic adventure by Algernon Blackwood, a dystopian science fiction tale by J.G. Ballard and a post-traumatic short novel by Don DeLillo are its primary objects of analysis. Each is explored within the context of its contemporary cultural debates on sound. Meanwhile, all four theory-enriched readings focus on intersecting and desire-laden processes of meaning making, knowledge production and subject formation. Focal points are aurally/audio-visually structured phenomena expressive of both collective and individual anxieties.
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Content
- Cover Resonant Alterities
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Sound Studies - An Interdisciplinary Field
- Literary Sound Studies
- Resonant Alterities
- Haunted by Sound:Vernon Lee, "A Wicked Voice"
- Introduction
- Resonant Texts
- Literary Soundscapes
- Implied Sound
- Discursive Echo Chamber
- Idolatrous Sounds
- Scandalously Effeminate - Meltingly Foreign
- Sedimented Anxieties
- Desiring the Vocal Phallus
- Sound is Power:Algernon Blackwood, The Human Chord
- Introduction
- Fin de Siècle Occultism
- On Vibration: Sound in Occultism
- On Vibration: Sound in Occult Fiction
- Occultist Science - Scientific Occultism
- Dissolved Division
- First Identity Experiment: Voice
- Second Identity Experiment: Pattern
- Partial Evocation
- Names as Words of Power
- First Scene of Uttering: the Dangers of Calling
- Vocal Technique Between Occultism & Science
- Second Scene of Uttering: the Bliss of Being Called
- The Name of God
- Noise, Silence and Oedipus: J.G. Ballard, "The Sound Sweep"
- Introduction
- Sonic Waste & Sonic Weapons
- Noise, the Avant-Garde & Ultrasonic Music
- Noise
- Technology
- Playing With Tradition
- Ultrasonic Music & Muzak
- Ultrasonic Music & Silence
- Cruel Mothers, Cruel Crowds
- Hate Speech
- The Voice as Ambivalent Object
- Auditory Hallucination & Vocal Jouissance
- Air To Sounds, Sounds To Words: Don DeLillo, The Body Artist
- Introduction
- First Failure of comNmuOnicIatiSonE: What?
- Second Failure of comNmuOnicIatiSonE: The Noise
- Noise - Voice - Chant
- The Visual & The Aural - Legacies of Modernism
- Second Person Narration & Self-Awareness
- Voice - Gender - Loss
- Sonic Symptom
- Aural Fort/Da
- Gender - De-Gendering - Empowerment
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
