Breathless: Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and the Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia

by Allen S. Weiss

Breathless explores early sound recording and the literature that both foreshadowed its invention and was contemporaneous with its early years, revealing the broad influence of this new technology at the very origins of Modernism. Through close readings of works by Edgar Allan Poe, St phane Mallarm , Charles Cros, Paul Val ry, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Jules Verne, and Antonin Artaud, Allen S. Weiss shows how sound recording's uncanny confluence of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081956592X
• ISBN13: 9780819565921
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"