LEADER 04259cam a2200589 i 4500001 278177 005 20240621234615.0 008 210322t20192019ilua b 001 0 eng 010 2019005602 020 9780810140219 |qpaperback |qalkaline paper 020 0810140217 |qpaperback |qalkaline paper 020 9780810140226 |qhardcover text |qalkaline paper 020 0810140225 |qhardcover text |qalkaline paper 020 |z9780810140233 |qelectronic book 020 |z0810140233 |qelectronic book 035 (OCoLC)on1050363502 035 278177 042 pcc 043 e-gx--- 049 LHMA 040 IEN/DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dYDX |dBNG |dCHVBK |dOCLCO |dLHM 050 00 PT395 |b.W48 2019 100 1 Whitney, Tyler, |eauthor. 245 10 Eardrums : |bliterary modernism as sonic warfare / |cTyler Whitney. 264 1 Evanston, Illinois : |bNorthwestern University Press, |c2019. 264 4 |c©2019 300 x, 219 pages : |billustrations ; |c23 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 520 "In this innovative study, Tyler Whitney demonstrates how a transformation and militarization of the civilian soundscape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries left indelible traces on the literature that defined the period. Both formally and thematically, the modernist aesthetics of Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Detlev von Liliencron, and Peter Altenberg drew on this blurring of martial and civilian soundscapes in traumatic and performative repetitions of war. At the same time, Richard Huelsenbeck assaulted audiences in Zurich with his "sound poems," which combined references to World War I, colonialism, and violent encounters in urban spaces with nonsensical utterances and linguistic detritus--all accompanied by the relentless beating of a drum on the stage of the Cabaret Voltaire. "Eardrums" is the first book-length study to explore the relationship between acoustical modernity and German modernism, charting a literary and cultural history written in and around the eardrum. The result is not only a new way of understanding the sonic impulses behind key literary texts from the period. It also outlines an entirely new approach to the study of literature as as the interaction of text and sonic practice, voice and noise, which will be of interest to scholars across literary studies, media theory, sound studies, and the history of science"--Provided by publisher. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Introduction. Writing sound across the modernist divide: phonography, acoustical embodiment, and the tympanic regime -- Liliencron, captain of the nineteenth century: naturalism as martial phonography -- Bringing the war home: tympanic transductions from the battlefield to Fin-de-siècle Vienna -- Drumming literature into the ground: Dada's tympanic regime -- Toward a modernist ear: Robert Musil and the poetics of acoustic space -- Into the inaudible: sound and imperception in Kafka's late writings -- Conclusion: Nazi soundscapes and their reverberation in postwar culture. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 German literature |y19th century |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 German literature |y20th century |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Modernism (Literature) |zGermany |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Sound in literature. 650 7 German literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00941797 650 7 Modernism (Literature) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01024455 650 7 Sound in literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01127004 651 7 Germany. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01210272 650 7 Deutsch. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4113292-0 650 7 Geräusch |gMotiv. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4242485-9 650 7 Klang |gMotiv. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4413513-0 650 7 Krieg |gMotiv. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4136410-7 650 7 Lärm |gMotiv. |2gnd |0(DE-588)7665246-4 650 7 Literatur. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4035964-5 650 7 Moderne. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4039827-4 648 7 1800-1999 |2fast 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411635 852 0 |bscstacks |hPT395 |i.W48 2019