Sound writing : experimental modernism and the poetics of articulation / Tobias Wilke
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- "This book examines how writers and artists from the 1870s to the 1960s turned their attention to the physical process of spoken language. Their goal was to capture this vocal-acoustic phenomenon-the bodily articulation of sound-in legible form. At stake was a crossing-over from the audible to the visible, from speech to notation, from body to trace. This book shows how the search for such possibilities-and the various media, techniques, and concepts employed-transformed the age-old genre of poetry into a site of radical linguistic experimentation"--