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The Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed, seeking in sound an alternative premise for theorizing modernist narrative form. The book shows how the experience of reading is undergirded by the sonic.

Table of Contents

Note on Abbreviations | ix
Overture: The Sound of a Novel | 1
1 Voice at the Threshold of the Audible: Free Indirect Discourse
and the Colonial Space of Reading | 13
Coda: Chantal Akerman and Lip Sync as Postcolonial Strategy | 59
2 The Echo of the Object: On the Pain of Self-Hearing in The Nigger
of the “Narcissus” and “The Fact of Blackness” | 67
Coda: Literary History as Miscegenating Sound: The Sound and the Fury | 103
Intersonority: Unclaimed Voices Circum-1900, or Sound and Sourcelessness
in The Souls of Black Folk | 115
3 A Sinister Resonance: On the Extraction of Sound and Language
in Heart of Darkness | 149
Reprise: Reverberation, Circumambience, and Form-Seeking Sound
(Absalom, Absalom!) | 211
Acknowledgments | 231
Notes | 235
Bibliography | 309
Index | 331

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 02/06/2020
      ISBN13: 9780823288168, 978-0823288168
      ISBN10: 0823288161
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      Philosophy: aesthetics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed, seeking in sound an alternative premise for theorizing modernist narrative form. The book shows how the experience of reading is undergirded by the sonic.

      Table of Contents

      Note on Abbreviations | ix
      Overture: The Sound of a Novel | 1
      1 Voice at the Threshold of the Audible: Free Indirect Discourse
      and the Colonial Space of Reading | 13
      Coda: Chantal Akerman and Lip Sync as Postcolonial Strategy | 59
      2 The Echo of the Object: On the Pain of Self-Hearing in The Nigger
      of the “Narcissus” and “The Fact of Blackness” | 67
      Coda: Literary History as Miscegenating Sound: The Sound and the Fury | 103
      Intersonority: Unclaimed Voices Circum-1900, or Sound and Sourcelessness
      in The Souls of Black Folk | 115
      3 A Sinister Resonance: On the Extraction of Sound and Language
      in Heart of Darkness | 149
      Reprise: Reverberation, Circumambience, and Form-Seeking Sound
      (Absalom, Absalom!) | 211
      Acknowledgments | 231
      Notes | 235
      Bibliography | 309
      Index | 331

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