Hearing things the work of sound in literature
Hearing Things is a meditation on sound's work in literature. Drawing on the writings of critics and philosophers but especially on the comments of many poets and novelists who have pointed to the role of the ear in writing and reading, it offers a reconsideration of literature itself as an exe...
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2018
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Sound's work: an introduction
- Listening thresholds
- Tennyson's hum
- Humming Tennyson: Christina Rossetti and Virginia Woolf
- Pennies and horse-play: W. B. Yeats's recalls
- "Coo-ee:" calling Walter de la Mare, Edward Thomas, Robert Frost
- A book, a face, a phantom: Walter de la Mare's "The green room"
- Hearing something: Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorie Graham
- "Wherever you listen from:" W. S. Graham's art of the letter
- Incarnations in the ear: hearing presence in Les Murray
- Justifying time in ticks and tocks
- Poetry's knowing: so what do we know?