ISBN:
9781435631755
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1435631757
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9789401205092
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9401205094
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9042022949
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9789042022942
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (324 S.)
Series Statement:
Thamyris intersecting 18
Series Statement:
Thamyris intersecting
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Social Science
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
;
Gesellschaft
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Communication and culture
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Sound Social aspects
;
Visual communication
;
Literatur
;
Ethnologie
;
Anthropologie
;
Geräusch
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Geräusch
;
Anthropologie
;
Geräusch
;
Literatur
;
Geräusch
;
Ethnologie
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Sonic Interventions; Colophon; Mission Statement; Contents; Acknowledgments; Sonic Interventions: An Introduction; Resonance -- Politics -- Resistance; Incantations: Gender and Identity; Performing Subjectivity: Literature, Race and Mourning; Mixing Music: Event, Place and Transculturality; The Contributors; Index
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Sonic Interventions makes a compelling case for the importance of sound in theorizing literature, subjectivity and culture. Sound is usually understood as our second sense and - as our belief in a visually dominated culture prevails - remains of secondary interest. Western cultures are considered to be predominantly visual, while other societies are thought to place more importance on the acoustic dimension. This volume questions these assumptions by examining how sound differs from, and acts in relationship to, the visual. It moves beyond theoretical dichotomies (between the visual and the so
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