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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459659803321

Autore

LaBelle Brandon

Titolo

Acoustic territories [[electronic resource] ] : sound culture and everyday life / / by Brandon LaBelle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Continuum, c2010

ISBN

1-5013-3619-3

1-5013-3618-5

1-5013-3621-5

1-282-87604-X

9786612876042

1-4411-7725-6

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Sound in mass media

Sound - Social aspects

Performance art

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-266) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Underground : busking, acousmatics, and the echo -- Home : ethical volumes of silence and noise -- Sidewalk : steps, gait, and rhythmic journey-forms -- Street : auditory latching, cars, and the dynamics of vibration -- Shopping mall : muzak, mishearing, and the productive volatility of feedback -- Sky : radio, spatial urbanism, and cultures of transmission.

Sommario/riassunto

Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sound culture and acts of listening, and discusses how auditory studies may illuminate understandings of contemporary society. Combining research on urbanism, popular culture and auditory issues, Acoustic Territories opens up multiple perspectives - it challenges debates surrounding noise pollution and charts an "acoustic politics of space" by unfolding



auditory experience as located within larger cultural histories and

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783855003321

Autore

Vice Sue <1961, >

Titolo

Holocaust fiction / / Sue Vice

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-66622-5

1-134-66623-3

0-203-37750-8

0-203-36074-5

1-280-06490-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Disciplina

823/.91409358

Soggetti

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature

Australian fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

World War, 1939-1945 - Literature and the war

Jews in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Formal matters:; Documentary fiction:; Autobiographical fiction:; Faction:; Melodrama:; Historical polemic:; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Examining the controversies that have accompanied the publication of novels representing the Holocaust, this compelling book explores such literature to analyze their violently mixed receptions and what this says about the ethics and practice of millennial Holocaust literature. The novels examined, including some for the first time, are: * Time's Arrow by Martin Amis* The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas* The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski* Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally* Sophie's Choice by William Styro