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Sound Effects combines literary criticism and psychoanalytic theory in eleven original articles which explore the potential of the object voice as an analytic tool to approach fiction. Alongside the gaze, the voice is Jacques Lacan’s original addition to the set of partial objects of classical psychoanalysis, and has only recently been theorised by Mladen Dolar in A Voice and Nothing More (2006). With notable exceptions like Garrett Stewart’s Reading Voices (1990), the sonorous element in fiction has received little scholarly attention in comparison with poetry and drama. Sound Effects is a contribution to the burgeoning field of sound studies, and sets out to fill this gap through selective readings of English and American fiction of the last two hundred years.
Contributors: Fred Botting, Natalja Chestopalova, Mladen Dolar, Matt Foley, Alex Hope, Phillip Mahoney, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Jorge Sacido-Romero, Marcin Stawiarski, Garrett Stewart, Peter Weise, and Bruce Wyse.
Contributors: Fred Botting, Natalja Chestopalova, Mladen Dolar, Matt Foley, Alex Hope, Phillip Mahoney, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Jorge Sacido-Romero, Marcin Stawiarski, Garrett Stewart, Peter Weise, and Bruce Wyse.
Price: $145.00
Pages: 340
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: DQR Studies in Literature
Publication Date:
27 August 2015
ISBN: 9789004304383
Format: Hardcover
“The editors succeeded in selecting and organizing a number of high quality contributions by some of the most prominent names in the field in a book which definitely fulfils its aims. Sound Effects can at times make a demanding reading but it is also a much needed one for academics interested on the ways literary criticism intersects with psychoanalytic theory and sound studies. By triangulating these fields, the volume does not only contribute to fill a critical vacuum, but it also paves the way to further research on the vocal effects of texts and the intriguing notion of the “object voice” in fiction.”- María Casado Villanueva, University College of Southeast Norway, in Nexus, Vol. 2 2017 pp. 54-59
Jorge Sacido-Romero, Ph.D. (1967), is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He has published widely on modern British fiction writers and is the editor of Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English (Rodopi, 2012).
Sylvia Mieszkowski, Ph.D. (1973), is currently guest professor of English literature at Bayreuth University. She has published Teasing Narratives (2003), a comparative study on tales of dysfunctional seduction, and Resonant Alterities, a monograph on sound in non-realist fiction (2014).
Sylvia Mieszkowski, Ph.D. (1973), is currently guest professor of English literature at Bayreuth University. She has published Teasing Narratives (2003), a comparative study on tales of dysfunctional seduction, and Resonant Alterities, a monograph on sound in non-realist fiction (2014).