An interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound
through text. Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, The
Sound of Writing explores the devices and techniques that writers
have used to represent sound and how they have changed over time.
Contributors consider how writing has channeled sounds as varied as
the human voice and the buzzing of bees using not only alphabets
but also the resources of the visual and musical arts. Cannon and
Justice have assembled a constellation of classicists,
medievalists, modernists, literary historians, and musicologists to
trace the sound of writing from the beginning of the Western record
to poetry written in the last century. This rich series of essays
considers the writings of Sappho, Simonides, Aldhem, Marcabru,
Dante Alighieri, William Langland, Charles Butler, Tennyson,
Gertrude Stein, and T. S. Eliot as well as poems and songs in
Ancient Greek, Old and Middle English, Italian, Old French,
Occitan, and modern English. The book will interest anyone curious
about the way sound has been preserved in the past and the kinds of
ingenuity that can recover the process of that preservation. Essays
focus on questions of language and expression, and each contributor
sets out a distinct method for understanding the relationship
between sound and writing. Cannon and Justice open the volume with
a survey of the various ways sound has been understood as the
object of our senses. Each ensuing chapter presents a case study
for a sonic phenomenology at a specific time in history. With
approaches from a wide variety of disciplines, The Sound of Writing
analyzes writing systems and the aural dimensions of literary
cultures to reconstruct historical soundscapes in vivid ways.
General
| Imprint: |
Johns Hopkins University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
November 2023 |
| Editors: |
Christopher Cannon
• Steven Justice
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Pages: |
280 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4214-4724-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-4214-4724-X |
| Barcode: |
9781421447247 |
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