{"product_id":"the-fact-of-resonance-modernist-acoustics-and-narrative-form-paperback","title":"The Fact of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulie Beth Napolin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted, 2021 Memory Studies Association First Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fact of Resonance\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With meticulous attention to the aesthetics and politics of voice, sound, reading, listening, and the representation of others, Julie Beth Napolin offers an ear-opening set of resonances, restoring to the texts in question an audiovisual multiplicity entangled with race and ethnicity. This book is destined to reboot our reception of classics by Conrad, Du Bois, Fanon, Faulkner, and others. An admirably ambitious and nuanced study.\"--Rey Chow, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eSound Objects\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is a remarkable book, a truly interdisciplinary effort that brings the study of sound to bear on the very nature of narrative and the phenomenology of reading. Using a twinned approach to sound--both as acoustics and as sound-figures--allows Napolin to produce a wholly original set of engagements with the politics of colonialism, race, affect, and subjectivity in the modernist novel.\"--Brian Kane, Yale University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fact of Resonance\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor Napolin, the experience of reading is undergirded by the sonic. \"Resonance\" names the traversal of acoustical figures across the spaces of colonial and technological modernity, figures that register and transmit transformations of \"voice\" and \"sound\" across languages, culture, and modalities of hearing. Moving between Joseph Conrad, W. E. B. Du Bois, William Faulkner, Frantz Fanon, Chantal Akerman, and others, Napolin captures and enhances literature's ambient sounds, sounds that are clues to heterogeneous experiences secreted within the acoustical unconscious of texts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJulie Beth Napolin is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities in the Literature Program at the New School.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulie Beth Napolin is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities in the Literature Program at The New School. She has published on sound, media, and literature in \u003ci\u003equi parle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSymploke\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Sounding Out!\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSocial Text\u003c\/i\u003e and in such volumes as \u003ci\u003eVibratory Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSounding\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eModernism\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFifty Years after Faulkner\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2012 she was awarded a Bruce Harkness Young Scholar Award by the Joseph Conrad Society of America\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 02, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50369925480685,"sku":"9780823288168","price":61.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/wzCI8Mkm6W9780823288168.webp?v=1785440597","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/the-fact-of-resonance-modernist-acoustics-and-narrative-form-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}