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Literature as Sound Studies identifies literature as a site of sonic invention and reconfiguration, contributing a range of terms, models, and methods for attending to sound. Considering literary works drawn from a range of traditions—from twentieth-century Moroccan poems to early-modern English plays—Literature as Sound Studies brings out the sophisticated ways that literary writers and commentators have used and studied sound. Moving beyond the use of literature as mere ear witness to history, this collection brings out the complexity of sonic figuration in literature and literary studies, suggesting how this attentiveness to sound might anticipate, illuminate, and enrich the contemporary field of sound studies. The very category of the literary, considered as a subset of language writ large, has often hinged on the particular attention that literary works draw to their own sound, whether that sound be psychologically rehearsed, as in silent reading, or acoustically realized, as in a theatrical performance. Weaving together methods and concepts drawn from both literary and sound studies, these essays make legible literature’s complex role in shaping and writing a history of sound.

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Author:   Prof. yasser elhariry (Associate Professor, Dartmouth College, USA) ,  Prof. Liesl Yamaguchi (Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9798765121375

Pages:   256
Publication Date:   10 July 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"1. Literature as Sound Studies: An Introduction yasser elhariry, Dartmouth College, USA, and Liesl Yamaguchi, University of California, Berkeley, USA 2. Transistance Shane Butler, Johns Hopkins University, USA 3. Listening to Neo/Colonial Extraction in the ""Seismic Poetics"" of Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine David Fieni, SUNY Oneonta, USA 4. Material Lyricism and Its Vocal Styles Abigail Lang, Université Paris Cité, France 5. Victorian Poetry, Heard and Unheard Naomi Levine, Yale University, USA 6. Boris Vian’s Sound Map of the Embodied Mind Alexandra Lukes, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 7. The Mouse, the Machine Gun, and You: Sounds of Vsevolod Nekrasov Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College, USA 8. Literary Physics: Poetic Experiments with Sound Scott Sanders, Dartmouth College, USA 9. Listening Literature (Lindsay Turner, translator) Ryoko Sekiguchi, poet and artist Translated by Lindsay Turner, Case Western Reserve University, USA 10. Aural Philology and Voices of Difference in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s ""The Golden Pot: A Fairy Tale for the Modern Age"" (1814) Tanvi Solanki, Yonsei University Underwood International College, South Korea 11. Acoustic Fabulation: Thomas Dekker’s Soundwriting Scott A. Trudell, University of Maryland, USA 12. Pidgin Poetics Eliza Zingesser, Columbia University, USA Index"

Reviews

This edited collection makes a significant and welcome intervention in the field of sound studies through its centering of the literary and the textual. Literature as Sound Studies reminds us that the literary is not merely ‘ear witness’ to the past but a place where the audible is constituted and sound worlds are produced. Editors yasser elhariry and Liesl Yamaguchi have assembled a fantastic roster of scholars writing on a historically and geographically diverse set of writers (from Thomas Dekker to Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine to Franz Kafka) who attend in complex ways to these provocations. * Anna Snaith, Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature, King’s College London, UK * A resource exquisitely attuned to literature’s neglected soundplay and rightful place within the booming field of sound studies. * Matthew Rubery, Professor of Modern Literature, Queen Mary University of London, UK *

Author Information

yasser elhariry is Associate Professor of French at Dartmouth College, USA, and the author of Pacifist Invasions: Arabic, Translation, and the Postfrancophone Lyric (2017), and editor of Cultures du mysticisme (2017), Critically Mediterranean: Temporalities, Aesthetics, and Deployments of a Sea in Crisis (2018), The Postlingual Turn (2021), Sounds Senses (2021), and Abdelkébir Khatibi: Literature and Theory (2022). His essays also appear in Yale French Studies, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, New Literary History, L’Esprit Créateur, Contemporary French Civilization, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: SITES, Francosphères, French Forum, Parade sauvage: revue d’études rimbaldiennes, and several edited volumes. Liesl Yamaguchi is Assistant Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and specializes in poetics, linguistics, translation, and literary theory. Her recent publications have appeared in New Literary History, Common Knowledge, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, French Studies, and Comparative Literature, garnering the Ralph Cohen Prize (NLH) and the Vivien Law Prize (Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas). Her translation of Väinö Linna's Unknown Soldiers was the first work of Finnish literature to appear with Penguin Classics (2015); her first monograph The Proper Tone: On the Color of Vowels is forthcoming.

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