Soundscapes and Affective Resonance in (Neo-)Victorianism
Sound and voice have been invoked in neo-Victorian criticism since its beginning, and we have utilised the notion of the author as medium: for example, the medium’s ability to communicate with the dead has been used as metaphor for the dialogue between past and present, and the author functioning as...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:cve_9949 https://doi.org/10.4000/cve.9949 urn:doi:10.4000/cve.9949 en https://journals.openedition.org/cve/9949 2021-11-18T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/f07p https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Soundscapes and Affective Resonance in (Neo-)Victorianism Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2271-6149 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0220-5610 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cve Arias, Rosario sens bruit néo victorianisme Fox (Essie) Roberts (Michèle) neo-Victorianism senses noise Fox (Essie) Roberts (Michèle) Sound and voice have been invoked in neo-Victorian criticism since its beginning, and we have utilised the notion of the author as medium: for example, the medium’s ability to communicate with the dead has been used as metaphor for the dialogue between past and present, and the author functioning as a medium partaking of the world of the dead and world of the living, thus connecting and embodying the disembodied voices of the dead. However, my interest here lies not only in the voices of the dead, but also in other sound-related phenomena that feature in neo-Victorian novels so as to illustrate that neo-Victorianism impinges on the Victorian duality materiality/immateriality, embodiment/disembodiment, including acoustics. Moreover, I would like to argue that the paradoxical nature of the movement is predicated upon the ambivalent nature of the notion of noise, and that, in a way, neo-Victorianism functions as a noise in that it interrupts our present, and acquires a productive value, following Michel Serres. Therefore, in this paper I will consider neo-Victorianism as a noise, and I will discuss soundscapes and affective sensoriality in a selection of texts. Then, I will argue that a framework of sensoriality, through the evocation of sound, voice and noise, helps us interrogate our interaction with the non-human, and makes us think what it is like to be human today. Selon Yannis Hamilakis, autrefois le son « était perçu comme une faculté corporelle imprégnée de matérialité. . . et elle avait un impact matériel direct sur les corps des récepteurs » (27). Si nous prêtons attention aux modalités sensorielles de la culture victorienne, cette approche nous permet d’étudier les effets sociaux des engagements sensoriels et d’établir un dialogue continu entre le passé et le présent. En adoptant une approche sensorielle pour re-visiter le passé victorien (dans le néo-victorien), nous nous efforcerons de mieux comprendre « la diversité formelle du monde matériel et de la relier à l’expérience sensorielle et à la mémoire » (Hamilakis 200). En conséquence, il ne s’agit pas seulement de la représentation du passé (victorien), mais « d’une évocation de sa présence, de sa matérialité palpable et vivante, de sa chair » (Hamilakis 199). Le son et la voix ont été invoqués dans la critique néo-victorienne depuis ses débuts, et nous avons utilisé la notion d’auteur comme médium : la capacité du médium à communiquer avec les morts a été utilisée comme métaphore pour le dialogue entre passé et présent, et pour l’auteur incarnant les voix des morts. En outre, le néo-Victorianisme fonctionne comme un bruit en ce qu’il interrompt notre présent, et acquiert une valeur productive, comme le suggère Michel Serres. L’étude de textes choisis pour cet article permettra d’envisager le néo-Victorianisme comme un bruit constitutif de paysages sonores et de sensorialités affectives. |
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Sound and voice have been invoked in neo-Victorian criticism since its beginning, and we have utilised the notion of the author as medium: for example, the medium’s ability to communicate with the dead has been used as metaphor for the dialogue between past and present, and the author functioning as a medium partaking of the world of the dead and world of the living, thus connecting and embodying the disembodied voices of the dead. However, my interest here lies not only in the voices of the dead, but also in other sound-related phenomena that feature in neo-Victorian novels so as to illustrate that neo-Victorianism impinges on the Victorian duality materiality/immateriality, embodiment/disembodiment, including acoustics. Moreover, I would like to argue that the paradoxical nature of the movement is predicated upon the ambivalent nature of the notion of noise, and that, in a way, neo-Victorianism functions as a noise in that it interrupts our present, and acquires a productive value, following Michel Serres. Therefore, in this paper I will consider neo-Victorianism as a noise, and I will discuss soundscapes and affective sensoriality in a selection of texts. Then, I will argue that a framework of sensoriality, through the evocation of sound, voice and noise, helps us interrogate our interaction with the non-human, and makes us think what it is like to be human today. |
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Arias, Rosario |
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Arias, Rosario |
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Soundscapes and Affective Resonance in (Neo-)Victorianism |
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Soundscapes and Affective Resonance in (Neo-)Victorianism |
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Soundscapes and Affective Resonance in (Neo-)Victorianism |
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