Breathless Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and the Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia
| Author/creator | Weiss, Allen S. Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Middletown : Wesleyan University Press Lebanon : University Press of New England [Distributor] |
| Description | 170 p. 08.500 x 05.500 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Summary | Annotation Breathless explores early sound recording and the literature that both foreshadowed its invention and was contemporaneous with its early years, revealing the broad influence of this new technology at the very origins of Modernism. Through close readings of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Stephane Mallarme, Charles Cros, Paul Valery, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Jules Verne, and Antonin Artaud, Allen S. Weiss shows how sound recording's uncanny confluence of human and machine would transform our expectations of mourning and melancholia, transfiguring our intimate relation to death. Interdisciplinary, the book bridges poetry and literature, theology and metaphysics. As Breathless shows, the symbolic and practical roles of poetry and technology were transformed as new forms of nostalgia and eroticism arose. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780819572523 |
| ISBN | 0819572527 (E-Book) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780819572523 |
| Stock number | 00823772 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |