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UNINA9910637727603321 |
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Autore |
Eisenberg Annika |
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Titolo |
Navigating Urban Soundscapes : Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction / / by Annika Eisenberg |
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Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
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ISBN |
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9783031167348 |
9783031167331 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2023.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (253 pages) |
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Collana |
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Literary Urban Studies, , 2523-7896 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature, Modern - 20th century |
Literature - Aesthetics |
Science - Social aspects |
Cities and towns - History |
Space |
Culture |
Twentieth-Century Literature |
Literary Aesthetics |
Sound Studies |
Urban History |
Space and Place in Culture |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Mediated Sound -- Tunement: Listening to Listening -- Urban Sonar -- Teeming with Traffic -- Crowded Voices -- Aquacities -- Conclusion: Rewind – Fast Forward. . |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction offers an innovative analytical framework to explore sound in different media and across two distinct urban soundscapes. Studying a wide range of novels, films, and radio dramas, using Dublin and Los Angeles as case studies, Annika Eisenberg asks how sounds are aestheticised to signify urban space in fiction, and how sounds allow such fictional |
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urban spaces to be navigated, both by auscultators, the characters listening within a work of fiction, and by auditeurs, the implied audience of a fictional work. Eisenberg argues that the concept of “urban sound” is a cultural and aesthetic construct, and in doing so, she shows why aesthetics needs to be front and center in sound studies. |
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