LEADER 04585nam 2200649 450 001 9910809906903321 005 20230822234951.0 010 $a0-8232-8819-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823288199 035 $a(CKB)4100000011286430 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6220293 035 $a(DE-B1597)566210 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823288199 035 $a(OCoLC)1155317447 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011286430 100 $a20201021d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe fact of resonance $emodernist acoustics and narrative form /$fJulie Beth Napolin 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (363 pages) 225 1 $aIdiom: inventing writing theory 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tNote on Abbreviations --$tOverture: The Sound of a Novel --$t1. Voice at the Threshold of the Audible: Free Indirect Discourse and the Colonial Space of Reading --$tCoda: Chantal Akerman and Lip Sync as Postcolonial Strategy --$t2. The Echo of the Object: On the Pain of Self-Hearing in The Nigger of the ?Narcissus? and ?The Fact of Blackness? --$tCoda: Literary History as Miscegenating Sound: The Sound and the Fury --$tIntersonority: Unclaimed Voices Circum-1900, or Sound and Sourcelessness in The Souls of Black Folk --$t3. A Sinister Resonance: On the Extraction of Sound and Language in Heart of Darkness --$tReprise: Reverberation, Circumambience, and Form-Seeking Sound (Absalom, Absalom!) --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed, seeking in sound an alternative premise for theorizing modernist narrative form. Arguing that narrative theory has been founded on an exclusion of sound, the book poses a missing counterpart to modernism?s question ?who speaks?? in the hidden acoustical questions ?who hears?? and ?who listens? ?For Napolin, the experience of reading is undergirded by the sonic. The book captures and enhances literature?s ambient sounds, sounds that are clues to heterogeneous experiences secreted within the acoustical unconscious of texts. The book invents an oblique ear, a subtle and lyrical prose style attuned to picking up sounds no longer hearable. ?Resonance? opens upon a new genealogy of modernism, tracking from Joseph Conrad to his interlocutors?Sigmund Freud, Frantz Fanon, W. E. B. Du Bois, William Faulkner, and Chantal Akerman?the racialized, gendered, and colonial implications of acoustical figures that ?drift? through and are transformed by narrative worlds in writing, film, and music. A major synthesis of resources gleaned from across the theoretical humanities, the book argues for ?resonance? as the traversal of acoustical figures across the spaces of colonial and technological modernity, figures registering and transmitting transformations of ?voice? and ?sound? across languages, culture, and modalities of hearing. We have not yet sufficiently attended to relays between sound, narrative, and the unconscious that are crucial to the ideological entailments and figural strategies of transnational, transatlantic, and transpacific modernism. The breadth of the book?s engagements will make it of interest not only to students and scholars of modernist fiction and sound studies, but to anyone interested in contemporary critical theory. 410 0$aIdiom (Fordham University Press) 606 $aFiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aOral interpretation 610 $aColonialism. 610 $aFilm and Media. 610 $aJoseph Conrad. 610 $aLiterary Theory. 610 $aModernism. 610 $aNarratology. 610 $aRace. 610 $aSound. 610 $aW.E.B. Du Bois. 610 $aWilliam Faulkner. 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aOral interpretation. 676 $a809.3 686 $aLR 57650$qSEPA$2rvk 700 $aNapolin$b Julie Beth$01653514 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809906903321 996 $aThe fact of resonance$94004857 997 $aUNINA