ISBN:
9780415883528
,
9780203818039
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 247 p
,
ill
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Routledge research in cultural and media studies 31
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Literature and technology History
;
Mass media and literature History
;
Audiobooks
;
Sound in literature
;
Literature Appreciation
;
Books and reading History 20th century
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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