Audio Book: Essays on Sound Technologies in Narrative Fiction - Image 1

£79.64

Lexington Books Audio Book: Essays on Sound Technologies in Narrative Fiction

Name: Audio Book: Essays on Sound Technologies in Narrative Fiction
Brand: Lexington Books
Price: 79.64 GBP
Availability: InStock

History & Criticism

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£80 today · previous high £80 · all-time low £53

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 638 days • 638 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 638 days • 4 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £53 (417 days, 65.4%)

Price range: £53 - £80

Price levels: 4 different prices over 638 days

Description

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 Bakers Vox, Michel Tourniers Tristan Vox, Heinrich Bölls Murkes Collected Silences, Don DeLillos The Body Artist, Nick Hornbys High Fidelity, and Sylvia Brownriggs 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. The sound technologies represented in the texts problematize the clear distinction between speech and writing, or between natural articulation and its technological reproduction. Audio Book suggests that literary writing is metaphorically conceivable as a transmitting and storing technology, as an audiobook of sorts, capable of recording (upon writing) and reproducing (upon reading) auditory information. The sound technologies proper have also bearing on the narrative structure, metaphorics, and style of each fictional work studied in Audio Book. In addition, themes such as identity, genre, the nature of literary representation, and the absence/presence problem are brought to the fore on account of the technologies depicted.

Product Specifications

Brand: Lexington Books
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0739118315
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 11 April 2008
Listed Since: 01 February 2008

Barcode

No barcode data available

Lexington Books Audio Book: Essays on Sound Technologies in Narrative Fiction

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Digital Audiobooks: New Media, Users, and Experiences (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture)

Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo’s Novels: 52 (Modern American Literature: New Approaches)

Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas (Flashpoints): 26

Modernist Soundscapes: Auditory Technology and the Novel

Audible Infrastructures: Music, Sound, Media (Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound)

Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age (Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures)

Sound Writing: Experimental Modernism and the Poetics of Articulation

The Audio Expert: Everything You Need to Know About Audio

The Audio Expert: Everything You Need to Know About Audio

Audionarratology: Interfaces of Sound and Narrative: 52 (Narratologia, 52)

Women in Audio (Audio Engineering Society Presents)

Sound Recording Technology and American Literature: From the Phonograph to the Remix: 187 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 187)

Critical Survey of World Literature: Africa: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access: 1

Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life (Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound)

The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Western Art (Oxford Handbooks)

Academic Press' Library in Signal Processing: Signal Processing Theory and Machine Learning, Communications and Radar Signal Processing, Array and ... Audio, Acoustic and Speech Processing