Sam Halliday, Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Sam Halliday’s dashingly titled Sonic Modernity starts off with some big questions: ‘What is “modern” about sound, and what is the significance of sound for modernism? How is sound represented in literature, and the other arts?’ (1). Ambitious? Perhaps, but there is nothing wrong with ambition if o...
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Études britanniques contemporaines
2015
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | Sam Halliday’s dashingly titled Sonic Modernity starts off with some big questions: ‘What is “modern” about sound, and what is the significance of sound for modernism? How is sound represented in literature, and the other arts?’ (1). Ambitious? Perhaps, but there is nothing wrong with ambition if one gets what on sets out for. Yet, the first thing the reader does not quite get is the kind of subtle distinction Halliday is sketching between ‘modernity’ and ‘modernism’. That ‘sound in modernis... |
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