{"product_id":"the-fact-of-resonance-modernist-acoustics-and-narrative-form-hardback-9780823288175","title":"The Fact of Resonance; Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form (Hardback) 9780823288175","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Fact of Resonance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eModernist Acoustics and Narrative Form\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJulie Beth Napolin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823288175\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 June 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 10\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.508 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted, 2021 Memory Studies Association First Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Fact of Resonance\u003c\/i\u003e 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 questions \"who hears?\" and \"who listens?\"\u003cbr\u003e For Napolin, the experience of reading is undergirded by the sonic. The book captures and enhances literature's ambient sounds, sounds that are clues to heterogeneous experiences secreted within the acoustical unconscious of texts. The book invents an oblique ear, a subtle and lyrical prose style attuned to picking up sounds no longer hearable. \"Resonance\" opens upon a new genealogy of modernism, tracking from Joseph Conrad to his interlocutors—Sigmund Freud, Frantz Fanon, W. E. B. Du Bois, William Faulkner, and Chantal Akerman—the racialized, gendered, and colonial implications of acoustical figures that \"drift\" through and are transformed by narrative worlds in writing, film, and music.\u003cbr\u003e A major synthesis of resources gleaned from across the theoretical humanities, the book argues for \"resonance\" as the traversal of acoustical figures across the spaces of colonial and technological modernity, figures registering and transmitting transformations of \"voice\" and \"sound\" across languages, culture, and modalities of hearing. We have not yet sufficiently attended to relays between sound, narrative, and the unconscious that are crucial to the ideological entailments and figural strategies of transnational, transatlantic, and transpacific modernism. The breadth of the book's engagements will make it of interest not only to students and scholars of modernist fiction and sound studies, but to anyone interested in contemporary critical theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNote on Abbreviations\u003c\/i\u003e   ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOverture\u003c\/b\u003e: The Sound of a Novel   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e Voice at the Threshold of the Audible: Free Indirect Discourse\u003cbr\u003e and the Colonial Space of Reading   13\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Chantal Akerman and Lip Sync as Postcolonial Strategy   59\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e The Echo of the Object: On the Pain of Self-Hearing in \u003ci\u003eThe Nigger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eof the \"Narcissus\"\u003c\/i\u003e and \"The Fact of Blackness\"   67\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Literary History as Miscegenating Sound: \u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/i\u003e   103\u003cbr\u003e Intersonority: Unclaimed Voices Circum-1900, or Sound and Sourcelessness\u003cbr\u003e in \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/i\u003e   115\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3\u003c\/b\u003e A Sinister Resonance: On the Extraction of Sound and Language\u003cbr\u003e in \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e   149\u003cbr\u003e Reprise: Reverberation, Circumambience, and Form-Seeking Sound\u003cbr\u003e (\u003ci\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/i\u003e)   211\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   231\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   235\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e   309\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   331\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580424483096,"sku":"9780823288175","price":96.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-fact-of-resonance-modernist-acoustics-and-narrative-form-hardback-9780823288175","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}