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Group publication title:

InScriptum

Contributor:

Guidotti, Francesca. Ed.  ; Ożarska, Magdalena. Ed.  ; Bianchi, Marina. Ed.  ; Keefe, Sharon. Ed.  ; Bernstein, Beth A. Ed.  ; Newman, John G. Ed.  ; Dossena, Marina. Ed.  ; Łodej, Sylwester. Ed. Marczewska, Marzena. Ed.

Abstract:

Modernism witnessed a radical reconfiguration as far as sound is concerned, since the frontiers of literature and arts were opening up to experimentation and innovation as never before. The new array of sounds and noises in big cities, together with the voices and silences in families, and the sound-marks of war, religion, and racial/gender segregation, gave rise to new cultures of listening, so that sensorial perception started to become a new paradigm of knowledge. I will briefly concentrate on some literary works by Louisa May Alcott, Anna Katharine Green, Alice Campbell, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which in my opinion anticipated modernism as far as sound is concerned. In each of them, the soundscape (or sonic environment) is pervasive and challenges the hegemony of sight in all its declinations. I believe these works truly deserve a place among the best products of their time and give a fundamental contribution to sound studies. In fact, they highlight such typical practices as overhearing, eavesdropping, crying, whispering, hearkening, and silencing (or being silenced), which are clearly and dramatically linked to gender issues.

Table of contents:

Spis treści
Articles
7 Alessandra Goggio Die Gefahren einer „ästhetischen“ Erziehung: Zu Karl Gutzkows Roman Wally, die Zweiflerin (The Dangers of an “Aesthetic” Education: On Karl Gutzkow’s Novel Wally, die Zweiflerin)
27 Alessandra Calanchi Detecting the Domestic Soundscape in the ‘Age of Noise’: Alcott, Green, Campbell, Gilman
45 Andrea Acqualagna “Frozen Stillness”: The American Sublime and the Meteorological Element of Snow in John Fante’s “Books of Youth”
67 Alessandro Secomandi La “loca de la mina”: una lectura de Amirbar, de Álvaro Mutis (The Madwoman in the Mine: A Reading of Amirbar, by Álvaro Mutis)
93 Laura Todeschini The World Was All Before Them: From Preservation to Reconfiguration in Shelley’s The Last Man and Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
115 Angela Locatelli Labyrinths of Memory in Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi Book reviews
143 (Reviewed by Jasen Rodríguez, Texas State University) Michael Kidd, Black Protagonists of Early Modern Spain: Three Key Plays in Translation. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2023, xiv + 337 pp.
149 Resenado por Ana I. Simón Alegre, Adelphi University, New York Carolina Alzate, Un cuento que no se acaba. Agripina Samper de Ancínar e Inés Ancínar Samper (1848-1892). Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2024, 435 pp.
153 Resenado por José de María Romero Barea, I.E.S. Azahar, Sevilla Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Los nombres de Feliza. Madrid: Alfaguara, 2025, 288 pp.
157 Reviewed by Camilla Holm Soelseth, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University Daniel Scott Snelson, The Little Database – A Poetics of Media Formats. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2025, 224 pp.

Place of publishing:

Kielce

Physical description:

s. 27-43

ISSN:

2720-2402 (online)

Publisher:

Jan Kochanowski University Press

Date issued:

2025

Identifier:

doi:10.25951/14185

Language:

angielski

Is part of:

InScriptum. A Journal of Language and Literary Studies

Has part:

vol.6

Type:

tekst

Access rights:

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License:

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