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15 produkter
Resounding the Sublime
Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670-1850
Inbunden, 2021
983 kr
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What does the sublime sound like? Harmonious, discordant, noisy, rustling, silent? Miranda Eva Stanyon rereads and resounds this crucial aesthetic category in English and German literatures of the long eighteenth century from a musical perspective and shows how sonorous sublimes lay at the heart of …
Sonic Bodies
Text, Music, and Silence in Late Medieval England
Av Tekla Bude
Inbunden, 2022
909 kr
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What is the body when it performs music? And what, conversely, is music as it reverberates through or pours out of a performing body? Tekla Bude starts from a simple premise-that music requires a body to perform it-to rethink the relationship between music, matter, and the body in the late medieval …
Sonic Bodies
Text, Music, and Silence in Late Medieval England
Av Tekla Bude
E-bok, 2022
1195 kr
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What is the body when it performs music? And what, conversely, is music as it reverberates through or pours out of a performing body? Tekla Bude starts from a simple premise-that music requires a body to perform it-to rethink the relationship between music, matter, and the body in the late medieval …
Resounding the Sublime
Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670-1850
E-bok, 2021
1155 kr
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What does the sublime sound like? Harmonious, discordant, noisy, rustling, silent? Miranda Eva Stanyon rereads and resounds this crucial aesthetic category in English and German literatures of the long eighteenth century from a musical perspective and shows how sonorous sublimes lay at the heart of …
Proust's Songbook
Songs and Their Uses
Inbunden, 2024
912 kr
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In Proust's Songbook, Jennifer Rushworth analyzes and theorizes the presence and role of songs in Marcel Proust's novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). Instead of focusing on instrumental music and large-scale forms such as symphonies and opera, as is common in Proust …
Proust's Songbook
Songs and Their Uses
E-bok, 2024
1270 kr
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In Proust’s Songbook , Jennifer Rushworth analyzes and theorizes the presence and role of songs in Marcel Proust’s novel À la recherche du temps perdu ( In Search of Lost Time ). Instead of focusing on instrumental music and large-scale forms such as symphonies and opera, as is common in Proust …
Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting
A Social History of the Modern Voice
Inbunden, 2025
825 kr
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What was considered a good, normal, or healthy voice in the nineteenth century?In 1854, singing master Manuel Garcia became the first person to see the vocal cords at work in a human throat. Less than a decade later, surgeon Paul Broca identified what he called a speech center in the brain. The …
Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting
A Social History of the Modern Voice
E-bok, 2025
954 kr
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What was considered a good, normal, or healthy voice in the nineteenth century? In 1854, singing master Manuel Garcia became the first person to see the vocal cords at work in a human throat. Less than a decade later, surgeon Paul Broca identified what he called a speech center in the brain. The …
Sonic Circulations
Music, Modernism, and the Politics of Knowledge
Av Emily I. Dolan, Emily MacGregor m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
766 kr
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The role music, sound, and voice played in modern knowledge production in the early twentieth centuryDerived from the Latin words circum (round) and ire (to go), a circuit can refer to any bounded area. For contemporary readers, it might evoke the course of an electric current, as well as the flow …
Sonic Circulations
Music, Modernism, and the Politics of Knowledge
Av Emily I. Dolan, Emily MacGregor m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
886 kr
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The role music, sound, and voice played in modern knowledge production in the early twentieth centuryDerived from the Latin words circum (round) and ire (to go), a circuit can refer to any bounded area. For contemporary readers, it might evoke the course of an electric current, as well as the flow …
Public Acoustics
The Sound of Society in Ancien Régime Literature
Inbunden, 2026
848 kr
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Explores how Ancien Régime writers theorized public communication through acoustic metaphorsThe salons, cafés, theaters, and print shops of Ancien Régime France have long occupied a key place in histories of the "public sphere"—that is, a cultural arena where private individuals could discuss …
Public Acoustics
The Sound of Society in Ancien Régime Literature
E-bok, 2026
723 kr
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Explores how Ancien Régime writers theorized public communication through acoustic metaphorsThe salons, cafés, theaters, and print shops of Ancien Régime France have long occupied a key place in histories of the "public sphere"—that is, a cultural arena where private individuals could discuss …
Sonic South
Nineteenth-Century Plantation Literature
Inbunden, 2026
845 kr
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An examination of the influence of white listening practices on literary representations of the plantation SouthEarly colonial histories of the plantation South often relied on multisensory descriptions to construct an image of the region as a "land of beauty." While these early accounts are rich …
Sonic South
Nineteenth-Century Plantation Literature
E-bok, 2026
731 kr
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An examination of the influence of white listening practices on literary representations of the plantation SouthEarly colonial histories of the plantation South often relied on multisensory descriptions to construct an image of the region as a "land of beauty." While these early accounts are rich …
Attentive Ear
Sound, Cognition, and Subjectivity in the Long Nineteenth Century
Av Francesca Brittan, Carmel Raz
Inbunden, 2026
933 kr
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An interdisciplinary history of auditory attention that demonstrates the central role of audition in shaping our conceptions of focus and distractionOver the past decade, attention and its perceived opposite, distraction, have become sites of sustained anxiety and debate. Questions around attentive …
