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Whitney, Tyler.

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Spaces of the Ear: Literature, Media, and the Science of Sound 1870--1930.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Spaces of the Ear: Literature, Media, and the Science of Sound 1870--1930./
作者:	Whitney, Tyler.
面頁冊數:	350 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-08A(E).
標題:	Literature, Germanic. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3560443
ISBN:	9781303064135

Spaces of the Ear: Literature, Media, and the Science of Sound 1870--1930.
Whitney, Tyler.

Spaces of the Ear: Literature, Media, and the Science of Sound 1870--1930. - 350 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2013.

Spaces of the Ear examines the concomitant emergence of new forms of acoustical embodiment across the diverse fields of literature and science in the historical period beginning with the Franco-Prussian War and ending with the introduction of early information theory in the late 1920s. In opposition to popular accounts of changes in listening practices around 1900, which typically take the disembodied voices of new media such as the phonograph and radio as true markers of acoustical modernity, the dissertation emphasizes the proliferation of new modes of embodied listening made possible by the explosion of urban and industrial noise, contemporary media technologies, the threat of auditory surveillance, and the imposition of self-observational and self-disciplinary practices as constitutive of artistic, scientific, and everyday life. In doing so, I show how distinct elements of modern soundscapes and corresponding techniques of listening informed both the key thematic and formal elements of literary modernism. In particular, I argue that modernism's often-cited narrative self-reflexivity drew on conceptions of a uniquely embodied listener and the newfound audibility of the body, and overlapped with contemporaneous scientific knowledge surrounding the physiology of the ear and the role of the body in the perception of sound.

ISBN: 9781303064135Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019072
Literature, Germanic.

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