04151nam 2200793 450 991081056270332120210817111955.01-136-73332-91-283-15119-797866131511931-136-73333-70-203-81803-210.4324/9780203818039(CKB)2670000000093787(EBL)692326(OCoLC)730151675(SSID)ssj0000521028(PQKBManifestationID)12223904(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521028(PQKBWorkID)10517666(PQKB)11543401(MiAaPQ)EBC692326(Au-PeEL)EBL692326(CaPaEBR)ebr10477538(CaONFJC)MIL315119(OCoLC)730501939(OCoLC)1264209348(CaBNVSL)9780203818039(EXLCZ)99267000000009378720210817h20212011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAudiobooks, literature, and sound studies /edited by Matthew RuberyFirst edition.London, England :Zed Books,2011.[London, England] :Bloomsbury Publishing,20211 online resource (259 pages)Routledge research in cultural and media studies ;31Description based upon print version of record.1-138-83337-1 0-415-88352-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Carr / 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 pere castor and children's audiobooks / Brigitte Ouvry-Vial -- Learning from librivox / Michael Hancher -- A preliminary phenomenology of the audiobook / D.E. Wittkower.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? In sum, the.Routledge research in cultural and media studies ;31.Literature and technologyHistoryMass media and literatureHistoryAudiobooksSound in literatureLiteratureAppreciationBooks and readingHistory20th centuryLiterature and technologyHistory.Mass media and literatureHistory.Audiobooks.Sound in literature.LiteratureAppreciation.Books and readingHistory302.23Rubery MatthewNCaBNVSLCaBNVSLBOOK9910810562703321Audiobooks, literature, and sound studies4056113UNINA