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A Sanctuary of Sounds is an aural rewriting of William Faulkner’s novel Sanctuary (1931). A polyphonic object. A garden — assemblage of blooms, of affects, of sounds, of meaning. An invitation to rethink appropriation ethically, aesthetically, and epistemologically. The appropriation of a body of work, of a physical body, of an idea, of data. The history of knowledge and its production is enabled by the process of appropriation, by the differentiation of noise. What does it mean to sample data, not of finished artworks, but of noise itself, the environment? Being victimized by the crushing quality of noise is all too human. Art must become an acoustic ecology. Noticing the landscape of objects, the relationships, the environment itself, in order to compose the music of tomorrow. Let the song of vibrant matter sing itself. A Sanctuary of Sounds is a noise–totality. Noise — nothing but noise. Noise as the first object of metaphysics. Noise as the synchronic/diachronic mediator of production–processes and their reorganization in society. Utopia and dystopia at once. A Sanctuary of Sounds is a dialectical poem, it is noise against noise — raping a rape.

American literature. --- William Faulkner --- sound ecology --- noise --- poetry

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The Fact of Resonance 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? ”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. 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.

Fiction --- Literature --- Oral interpretation. --- Interpretative reading --- Interpretative speech --- Reading, Interpretative --- Speech, Interpretative --- Oral communication --- Oral reading --- Reading --- Intonation (Phonetics) --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- History and criticism. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Colonialism. --- Film and Media. --- Joseph Conrad. --- Literary Theory. --- Modernism. --- Narratology. --- Race. --- Sound. --- W.E.B. Du Bois. --- William Faulkner.

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This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U.S. Civil War, Paul Giles identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of the Reagan presidency in 1981. He contrasts this with the more amorphous boundaries of American culture in the eighteenth century, and with ways in which conditions of globalization at the turn of the twenty-first century have reconfigured the parameters of the subject. In light of these fluctuating conceptions of space, Giles suggests new ways of understanding the shifting territory of American literary history. ranging from Cotton Mather to David Foster Wallace, and from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Zora Neale Hurston. Giles considers why European medievalism and Native American prehistory were crucial to classic nineteenth-century authors such as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville. He discusses how twentieth-century technological innovations, such as air travel, affected representations of the national domain in the texts of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. And he analyzes how regional projections of the South and the Pacific Northwest helped to shape the work of writers such as William Gilmore Simms, José Martí, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Gibson. Bringing together literary analysis, political history, and cultural geography, The Global Remapping of American Literature reorients the subject for the transnational era.

National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Regionalism in literature. --- Space in literature. --- Boundaries in literature. --- Geography in literature. --- American literature --- Topography in literature --- History and criticism. --- United States --- In literature. --- American Civil War. --- American Renaissance. --- American South. --- American broadcasting. --- American culture. --- American literary studies. --- American literature. --- Augustan American literature. --- Cotton Mather. --- Dave Eggers. --- David Foster Wallace. --- Don DeLillo. --- Douglas Coupland. --- Elizabeth Bishop. --- European medievalism. --- F. O. Matthiessen. --- F. Scott Fitzgerald. --- Flix Guattari. --- Gary Snyder. --- Gertrude Stein. --- Gilles Deleuze. --- Jos Mart. --- Magnalia Christi Americana. --- Nathaniel Hawthorne. --- Native Americans. --- New England. --- Pacific Northwest. --- Philip Roth. --- Phillis Wheatley. --- Ralph Waldo Emerson. --- Richard Brautigan. --- South America. --- Timothy Dwight. --- Toni Morrison. --- U.S. national identity. --- Ursula Le Guin. --- Voice of America. --- Wallace Stevens. --- William Dean Howells. --- William Faulkner. --- William Gibson. --- William Gilmore Simms. --- Zora Neale Hurston. --- allegory. --- antebellum narratives. --- cartography. --- deterritorialization. --- electronic media. --- extravagance. --- geography. --- globalization. --- liberal democracy. --- medieval American literature. --- medievalism. --- metaregionalism. --- modernism. --- narratives. --- national space. --- place. --- plantations. --- poetry. --- pseudo-geography. --- regionalism. --- social boundaries. --- space. --- technological innovations. --- transnationalism.

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This e-book explores the growth and development of Nordic modernisms in a European context. Concentrating on and yet not limiting itself to the study of literary texts, the book shows that the emergence of modernism in the Nordic countries is linked to, and inspired by, the innovative works published in Western Europe and the USA towards the end of the nineteenth century and in the first decades of the twentieth century. Presenting Nordic art as multi-dimensional and dynamic, it also shows that, while responding to aspects of these innovative works, Nordic modernism itself contributed to modernism as a complex international trend. The plural form “modernisms” in the book’s title indicates that the contributors adopt an understanding of modernism that, while recognizing the importance of the modernist movement between circa 1890 and 1940, is sufficiently elastic to include various forms of extension and continuation of Nordic modernisms in the post-war period. The book shows that the experience of crisis—cultural, political, moral, aesthetic—that underlies modernist artists’ invention of radically new forms of expression was by no means limited to just one country or one identifiable group of writers; nor was it, as modernisms’ global relevance makes clear, restricted to just one continent. At the level of historical reality, the First World War represents the culmination of a crisis which had its beginnings several decades earlier. The Second World War, along with the Holocaust, represents a second culmination of the crisis, and there is, this book suggests, a sense in which the experience of crisis has continued to influence and shape Nordic literature written in the post-war period. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the experience of crisis has increasingly been extended to include a growing uncertainty about the future prompted by the reality of climate change.

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This e-book explores the growth and development of Nordic modernisms in a European context. Concentrating on and yet not limiting itself to the study of literary texts, the book shows that the emergence of modernism in the Nordic countries is linked to, and inspired by, the innovative works published in Western Europe and the USA towards the end of the nineteenth century and in the first decades of the twentieth century. Presenting Nordic art as multi-dimensional and dynamic, it also shows that, while responding to aspects of these innovative works, Nordic modernism itself contributed to modernism as a complex international trend. The plural form “modernisms” in the book’s title indicates that the contributors adopt an understanding of modernism that, while recognizing the importance of the modernist movement between circa 1890 and 1940, is sufficiently elastic to include various forms of extension and continuation of Nordic modernisms in the post-war period. The book shows that the experience of crisis—cultural, political, moral, aesthetic—that underlies modernist artists’ invention of radically new forms of expression was by no means limited to just one country or one identifiable group of writers; nor was it, as modernisms’ global relevance makes clear, restricted to just one continent. At the level of historical reality, the First World War represents the culmination of a crisis which had its beginnings several decades earlier. The Second World War, along with the Holocaust, represents a second culmination of the crisis, and there is, this book suggests, a sense in which the experience of crisis has continued to influence and shape Nordic literature written in the post-war period. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the experience of crisis has increasingly been extended to include a growing uncertainty about the future prompted by the reality of climate change.

modernisms --- Nordic --- European --- literature --- translation --- decadence --- William Faulkner --- Swedish literary criticism --- Nobel Prize --- modernism --- reception history --- aesthetics and ideology --- meaning and significance --- theater --- avant-garde --- Norwegian literature --- Scandinavian modernism --- cross-fertilization --- circus --- meta-cultural code --- modernist aesthetics --- Nordic modernism --- poetry --- surrealism --- dream --- urban space --- gender performativity --- Hamsun’s Hunger --- Sandel’s Alberta and Freedom --- modern metropolis --- streetwalking --- science fiction --- contemporary poetry --- modernisation --- secularisation --- Henrik Ibsen --- Rosmersholm --- Sigmund Freud --- James Joyce --- Ulysses --- retranslation --- Ibsen --- Henrik --- Oz --- Amos --- Grossman --- David --- Goldberg --- Leah --- Israel --- Israeli literature --- Peer Gynt --- Hedda Gabler --- adaptation --- Zionism --- history of modernism --- geography of modernism --- literary periods --- modernism and realism --- modernism and tradition --- narrative crisis --- reception --- n/a --- Hamsun's Hunger --- Sandel's Alberta and Freedom