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Breathless Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and The Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia

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Full Title

Breathless Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and The Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia

Author(s)

Allen S. Weiss

Edition
ISBN

9780819572523, 9780819565921, 9780819565914

Publisher

Wesleyan University Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Explores how early radio and sound recording influenced modernist literature. Breathless explores early sound recording and the literature that both foreshadowed its invention and was contemporaneous with its early years, revealing the broad influence of this new technology at the very origins of Modernism. Through close readings of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Stéphane Mallarmé, Charles Cros, Paul Valéry, Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, Jules Verne, and Antonin Artaud, Allen S. Weiss shows how sound recording’s uncanny confluence of human and machine would transform our expectations of mourning and melancholia, transfiguring our intimate relation to death. Interdisciplinary, the book bridges poetry and literature, theology and metaphysics. As Breathless shows, the symbolic and practical roles of poetry and technology were transformed as new forms of nostalgia and eroticism arose.