[DOWNLOAD] "Voice Inverse." by Victorian Poetry # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Voice Inverse.
- Author : Victorian Poetry
- Release Date : January 22, 2004
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 186 KB
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LAST SUMMER I ATTENDED "VICTORIAN SOUNDINGS," A CONFERENCE SPONSORED by the Dickens Universe at UC Santa Cruz. The call for papers caught my ear, because the litany of possible topics sounded like a lyric poem: With each strophe of this ode to sound came the announcement of a general rubric: "Acoustic Devices," "Making Noise," "The Noise of Objects," "Sound and Speech," "Voicing Literature." There seemed to be a progression, from the mechanical reproduction and physical production of sound, to spiritualized forms for the transformation of noise into speech, culminating in the performance of literary voices ranging from "narrative" to "dialogue." Missing from this list, but deeply implicated in its increasingly metaphorical reading of voice, is the sound of Victorian poetry. How did poems resound within the auditory culture of Victorian England? There are many reasons (beyond "rhymes") to read poetry as an important medium for the articulation of Victorian ideas about voice. Victorian poems circulated as "acoustic devices" for the mediation of voice, preceding and perhaps even predicting the sound reproduction technologies that emerged in the course of the nineteenth century.