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Breathless: Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and the Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia [Paperback]

Allen S. Weiss (Author)

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Publication Date: November 15, 2002

Breathless explores early sound recording and the literature that both foreshadowed its invention and was contemporaneous with its early years, revealing the broad influence of this new technology at the very origins of Modernism. Through close readings of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Stephane Mallarme, Charles Cros, Paul Valery, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Jules Verne, and Antonin Artaud, Allen S. Weiss shows how sound recording's uncanny confluence of human and machine would transform our expectations of mourning and melancholia, transfiguring our intimate relation to death. Interdisciplinary, the book bridges poetry and literature, theology and metaphysics. As Breathless shows, the symbolic and practical roles of poetry and technology were transformed as new forms of nostalgia and eroticism arose.

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"By suggesting that sound recording changes the very notion of textuality at a key inflection point in Modernism, Weiss literally turns the field of cultural studies on its ear." (Gregory Whitehead, co-editor of Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-Garde )

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Paperback: 170 pages
Publisher: Wesleyan; 1st edition (November 15, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 081956592X
ISBN-13: 978-0819565921
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #732,444 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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