Camlot, Jason, 1967-

Phonopoetics : the making of early literary recordings / Jason Camlot. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (xv, 229 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : audiotextual criticism -- The voice of the phonograph -- Charles Dickens in three minutes or less : early phonographic fiction -- Alfred Tennyson's spectral energy : historical intonation in dramatic recitation -- T.S. Eliot's recorded experiments in modernist verse speaking -- Conclusion : analog, digital, conceptual.

From the invention of the phonograph in 1877 to some of the first recorded performances of modernist works in the 1930s, this book tells the neglected story of early spoken recordings and their significance for the experience and understanding of literature.



9781503609716

2018058290


English literature--Audio adaptations--History and criticism.
Literature and technology--History.
Sound recordings--History.
Oral interpretation--History.
Phonograph--History.


Electronic Books.

PR149 / .P466 2019