Murphet Julian, Groth Hellen, Hone Penelope (eds.) Sounding Modernism: Rhythm and Sonic Mediation in Modern Literature and Film

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 264 p. — ISBN10: 1474416365; ISBN13: 978-1474416368This volume brings together a range of essays by eminent and emergent scholars working at the intersection of modern literary, cinema and sound studies. The individual studies ask what specific sonorous qualities are capable of being registered by different modern media, and how sonic transpositions and transferences across media affect the ways in which human subjects attend to modern soundscapes. Script, groove, electrical current, magnetic imprint, phonographic vibration: as the contributors show, sound traverses these and other material platforms to become an insistent ground-note of modern aesthetics, one not yet adequately integrated into critical accounts of the period. This collection also provides a commanding and wide-ranging investigation of the conditions under which modernists tapped technically into the rhythms, echoes and sonic architectures of their worlds.Introduction: Sounding Modernism 1890-1950Writing Modern SoundsOn Not Listening To Modernism, Julian Murphet
Advocating Auricularisation: Virginia Woolf's 'In The Orchard', Tom VandeveldeMediated VoicesBottled 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 NapolinDifficult VoicesHarsh Sounds: George Gissing's Penetrating Literary Voice, Penelope Hone
Body and Soul: Modernism, Metaphysics, Rhyme, Sean Pryor
Listening to the Late Cantos, Kristin GroganModern Rhythm: Writing, Sound, CinemaThe 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