Introduction : audiotextual criticism -- The voice of the phonograph -- Charles Dickens in three minutes or less : early phonographic fiction -- Alfred Tennyson's spectral energy : historical intonation in dramatic recitation -- T.S. Eliot's recorded experiments in modernist verse speaking -- Conclusion : analog, digital, conceptual
Summary
From the invention of the phonograph in 1877 to some of the first recorded performances of modernist works in the 1930s, this book tells the neglected story of early spoken recordings and their significance for the experience and understanding of literature
Analysis
Audiotext
Gramophone
Literature
Media
Phonograph
Poetics
Sound Recording
Spoken Word
Victorian
Voice
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 01, 2019)