Hearing Things : : The Work of Sound in Literature / / Angela Leighton.
Hearing Things is a meditation on sound’s work in literature. Drawing on critical works and the commentaries of many poets and novelists who have paid close attention to the role of the ear in writing and reading, Angela Leighton offers a reconsideration of literature itself as an exercise in hearin...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Sound’s Work: An Introduction
- Listening Thresholds
- Tennyson’s Hum
- Humming Tennyson: Christina Rossetti and Virginia Woolf
- Pennies and Horseplay: W. B. Yeats’s Recalls
- “Coo-ee”: Calling Walter de La Mare, Edward Thomas, Robert Frost
- A Book, a Face, a Phantom: Walter de la Mare’s “The Green Room”
- Hearing Something: Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorie Graham
- “Wherever You Listen From”: W. S. Graham’s Art of the Letter
- Incarnations in the Ear: Hearing Presence in Les Murray
- Justifying Time in Ticks and Tocks
- Poetry’s Knowing: So What Do We Know?
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index