Papers originally presented at the conference Modern Soundscapes, held at the University of New South Wales in 2013. Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index.
Contents:
On not listening to modernism / Julian Murphet -- Advocating auricularisation : Virginia Woolf's "In the orchard" / Tom Vandevelde -- Bottled bands : automatic music and American media publics / Lisa Gitelman -- How to listen to Joyce : gramophones, voice and the limits of mediation / Helen Groth -- Sounding region, writing accent : A.G. Street and the BBC / Debra Rae Cohen -- Partial to opera : sounding Willa Cather's empty rooms / John Plotz -- Elliptical sound : audibility and the space of reading / Julie Beth Napolin -- Harsh sounds : George Gissing's penetrating literary voice / Penelope Hone -- Body and soul : modernism, metaphysics, rhyme / Sean Pryor -- Listening to the late cantos / Kristin Grogan -- The rhythms of character in Katherine Mansfield's "Miss Brill" / Helen Rydstrand -- The rhythm of the rails : sound and locomotion / Laura Marcus -- Two-step, nerve-tap, tanglefoot : tapdance typologies in cinema / Steven connor.
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