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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460976203321

Titolo

Audiobooks, literature, and sound studies / / edited by Matthew Rubery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011, [2021]

ISBN

1-283-15119-7

9786613151193

1-136-73333-7

0-203-81803-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 pages)

Collana

Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; ; 31

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Literature and technology - History

Mass media and literature - History

Audiobooks

Sound in literature

Literature - Appreciation

Books and reading - History - 20th century

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : talking books / Matthew Rubery -- The three-minute Victorian novel : remediating Dickens into sound / Jason Camlot -- A library on the air : literary dramatization and Orson Welles's Mercury theatre / James Jesson -- The audiographic impulse : doing literature with the tape recorder / Jesper Olsson -- Poetry by phone and phonograph : tracing the influence of Giorno poetry systems / Michael S. Hennessey -- Soundtracking the novel : Willy Vlautin's Northline as filmic audiobook / Justin St. Clair -- Novelist as "sound-thief" : the audiobooks of John le Carré / Garrett Stewart -- Hearing Hardy, talking Tolstoy : the audiobook narrator's voice and reader experience / Sara Knox -- Talking books, Toni Morrison, and the transformation of narrative authority : two frameworks / K.C. Harrisson -- Obama's voices : performance and politics on the Dreams from my father audiobook / Jeffrey Severs -- Bedtime storytelling revisited : Le père



castor and children's audiobooks / Brigitte Ouvry-Vial -- Learning from librivox / Michael Hancher -- A preliminary phenomenology of the audiobook / D.E. Wittkower.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the ""talking book"" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Recent advances in sound technology make this an opportune moment to reflect on the evolution of our reading practices since this remarkable invention. Some questions addressed by the collection include: How does auditory literature adapt printed texts? What skills in close listening are necessary for its reception? What are the social consequences of new listening technologies?