The Fact of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form

by Julie Beth Napolin

Book Overview

Shortlisted, 2021 Memory Studies Association First Book Award

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. Arguing that narrative theory has been founded on an exclusion of sound, the book poses a missing counterpart to modernism's question "who speaks?" in the hidden acoustical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823288161
• ISBN13: 9780823288168
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"