"The Noisiest Novel Ever Written": The Soundscape of Henry Roth's Call It Sleep

A remark by Walter Allen in the novel "Call It Sleep" by Henry Roth identifies one of the most striking and unusual features of the novel--it opens up a world of sound as few others seem to do. Evocations of a sonic environment in Roth's novel are discussed.

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Fathers
Fear
Fiction
Literary criticism
Mothers
Noise
Noise (Sound)
Novels
Perceptions
Portrayals
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Sound
Thunder
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Whistles
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