Description: Title: Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings Author: Camlot, Jason Publisher: Stanford University Press Binding: Hardcover Pages: 248 Dimensions: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d Product Weight: 1.15 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781503605213 Phonopoetics tells the neglected story of early "talking records" and their significance for literature, from the 1877 invention of the phonograph to some of the first recorded performances of modernist works. The book challenges assumptions of much contemporary criticism by taking the recorded, oral performance as its primary object of analysis and by exploring the historically specific convergences between audio recording technologies, media formats, generic forms, and the institutions and practices surrounding the literary. Opening with an argument that the earliest spoken recordings were a mediated extension of Victorian reading and elocutionary culture, Jason Camlot explains the literary significance of these pre-tape era voice artifacts by analyzing early promotional fantasies about the phonograph as a new kind of speaker and detailing initiatives to deploy it as a pedagogical tool to heighten literary experience. Through historically-grounded interpretations of Dickens impersonators to recitations of Tennyson to T.S. Eliot's experimental readings of "The Waste Land" and of a great variety of voices and media in between, this first critical history of the earliest literary sound recordings offers an unusual perspective on the transition from the Victorian to modern periods and sheds new light on our own digitally mediated relationship to the past. Authorized Dealer Stock Photo- Actual Cover May Vary Ships Fast From The USA!
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Book Title: Stanford University Press
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Phonopoetics : the Making of Early Literary Recordings
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Discography & Buyer's Guides, Recording & Reproduction, Media Studies, General, Poetry, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 0.9 in
Item Weight: 19.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Jason Camlot
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Music, Performing Arts, Social Science
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
