Sound Writing: Experimental Modernism and the Poetics of Articulation

Sound Writing: Experimental Modernism and the Poetics of Articulation
ISBN-10
0226817776
ISBN-13
9780226817774
Category
Art
Pages
274
Language
English
Published
2022-04-21
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Tobias Wilke

Description

"This book examines how writers and artists from the 1870s to the 1960s turned their attention to the physical process of spoken language. Their goal was to capture this vocal-acoustic phenomenon-the bodily articulation of sound-in legible form. At stake was a crossing-over from the audible to the visible, from speech to notation, from body to trace. This book shows how the search for such possibilities-and the various media, techniques, and concepts employed-transformed the age-old genre of poetry into a site of radical linguistic experimentation"--

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