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1 online resource (266 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: Talking Books; Part I: Sound Experiments; 1 The Three-Minute Victorian Novel: Remediating Dickens into Sound; 2 A Library on the Air: Literary Dramatization and Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre; 3 The Audiographic Impulse: Doing Literature with the Tape Recorder; 4 Poetry by Phone and Phonograph: Tracing the Influence of Giorno Poetry Systems; 5 Soundtracking the Novel: Willy Vlautin's Northline as Filmic Audiobook; Part II: Close Listenings; 6 Novelist as "Sound-Thief": The Audiobooks of John le Carré |
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7 Hearing Hardy, Talking Tolstoy: The Audiobook Narrator's Voice and Reader Experience8 Talking Books, Toni Morrison, and the Transformation of Narrative Authority: Two Frameworks; 9 Obama's Voices: Performance and Politics on the Dreams from My Father Audiobook; 10 Bedtime Storytelling Revisited: Le Père Castor and Children's Audiobooks; 11 Learning from LibriVox; 12 A Preliminary Phenomenology of the Audiobook; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Recent advances in sound technology make this an opportune moment to reflect on the evolution of our reading practices since this remarkable invention. Some questions addressed by the collection include: How does auditory literature adapt printed texts? What skills in close listening are necessary for its reception? What are the social consequences of new listening technologies? In sum, the |
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Print version record |
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Literature and technology -- History
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Mass media and literature -- History
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Audiobooks.
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Sound in literature.
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Literature -- Appreciation
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Books and reading -- History -- 20th century
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Audiobooks
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Books and reading
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Literature and technology
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Literature -- Appreciation
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Mass media and literature
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Sound in literature
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203818039 |
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0203818032 |
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