Audiobooks, literature, and sound studies /
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| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, 2011. |
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| Description: | xvii, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 31 Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 31. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8376689 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction: Talking Books
- Part I. Sound Experiments
- 1. The Three-Minute Victorian Novel: Remediating Dickens into Sound
- 2. A Library on the Air: Literary Dramatization and Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre
- 3. The Audiographic Impulse: Doing Literature with the Tape Recorder
- 4. Poetry by Phone and Phonograph: Tracing the Influence of Giorno Poetry Systems
- 5. Soundtracking the Novel: Willy Vlautin's Northline as Filmie Audiobook
- Part II. Close Listenings
- 6. Novelist as "Sound-Thief": The Audiobooks of John le Carre
- 7. Hearing Hardy, Talking Tolstoy: The Audiobook Narrator's Voice and Reader Experience
- 8. Talking Books, Toni Morrison, and the Transformation of Narrative Authority: Two Frameworks
- 9. Obama's Voices: Performance and Politics on the Dreams from My Father Audiobook
- 10. Bedtime Storytelling Revisited: Le Pere Castor and Children's Audiobooks
- 11. Learning from LibriVox
- 12. A Preliminary Phenomenology of the Audiobook
- Contributors
- Index
