... artistic landmarks – Soviet film and theatre, modernist music and the Ballets Russes – to bring dazzlingly experimental, often trans-medial artworks into the private lives of listeners at home. Contesting the persistent notion of wartime radio as culturally conservative and ‘at best, a sober and homely...

...Percy Bysshe Shelley, though not an active musician, was a keen listener. Like other progressive intellectuals in the 1810s, he perceived in the act of listening to music a form of soulful elevation which, in poems such as ‘Ode to the West Wind’, he connected to awakened political consciousness...

... Brzeska Henri media medium poetry Fang Achilles Mantell Marianne Qian Zhaoming Sieburth Richard sonic translation Barthes Roland hearing listening modernism onomatopoeia Prynne Jeremy reading speech sympathy Zukofsky Louis transliteration Pryor Sean Sacred Edict vernacular mimesis...

... separation subjectivity tercets Virgil Davidson Lynn landscape language Lawrence Faith listening Morgan Edwin musicality Nancy Jean Luc prayer s repetition Said Edward Bate Jonathan ecopoetry fairy music Heidegger Martin Levinas Emmanuel Mackay Peter nature Other the otherness...

... the listening materiality nonhuman noise von Trier Lars corps sonore de territorialisation exteriority resonant body unthinkable the correlationism Meillassoux Quentin outside the horror as genre Latour Bruno noise relationality speculative realism alien phenomenology Bogost Ian community...

... Cockpit Phoenix playhouse props revenge comedy eavesdropping oratory Hamlet Taste Genre Shakespeare Jonson Middleton Revenge tragedy City comedy Listening The Revenger’s Tragedy In A Short View of Tragedy, Thomas Rymer famously glosses a speech from Othello...

...Part Three, ‘The Art of Listening,’ focuses on experiences of listening to radio. Some of the essays featured here seek to capture the moment of listening; others discuss radio’s capacity to engineer encounters with other languages, places and cultures. The authors included are Fernand Divoire...

... materialises as the institutions, discourses and structures of postcolonial society. Causal desire is here described in terms of a particular attitude of ‘listening respect’ resulting in a certain ‘politics of friendship’ that positions individuals in relations of postcolonial sociability. Some key features...

...This chapter distinguishes different styles, intensities and attitudes of listening, as they manifest themselves and are discussed across a range of twentieth-century media and discourses: film (via Humphrey Jenning’s Listen to Britain); musical aesthetics (via Vernon Lee’s...

...This chapter traces a poetics of intimate listening in Leonora Carrington’s surrealist novel The Hearing Trumpet (written in the 1950s and published in 1974). Carrington was part of the circle of surrealist artists and writers gathered around André Breton in the mid-1930s...

...Michelle Langford proposes a new close reading or, better, close listening of Kiarostami’s film experiment. As is well known, Kiarostami’s adaptation of the classical Persian tale of Khosrow and Shirin completely withholds the images of the story, allowing us instead to watch...

... as they engage in participation monitoring. This chapter reviews the contributions of this volume, including the concepts of studenting, waves of embodied action, and multimodal listening. The challenges of multimodal analysis are discussed, including single-case analyses of two new phenomena: covert...

... of listening. It then examines in some detail the two writers – Kafka and Lovecraft – who, more than any others, sought a literary aesthetic adequate to grappling with this sound that cannot or should not be heard. Duncan Robert Alpher Ralph audibility Gamow George hearing Kittler Friedrich Lemaître...

...Music resounds throughout Lawrence’s work; from hymns, folk songs, classical music and opera to Native American singing and drumming. This chapter considers the various ways in which he deployed music in his art, beginning with the culturally engaged way of listening evident in Aaron’s Rod...

...What does it mean to exist, in our experience of cinema, according to listening? How do sound and ‘noise’ reconfigure relations between spectators and screens, and by extension, spectators and their worlds? How do films raise questions about the ethics and politics of listening to different bodies...

...This chapter aims to uncover how students display (non)participation and (dis)engagement when they are meant to be listening, focusing on how students’ embodied actions can make their engagement and participation in listening public. In tracing how students’ participation displays ebb and flow over...

... (1782). Richardson’s depictions of private, functional amateur music-making focus on music as the act of performance, whereas Burney’s scenes of professional opera and concert performances for public consumption offer extended narratives of music as a listening experience. Issues raised include...

... listening Rossini 429 Nineteenth-Century Fiction and Music The increasingly commercial, professionalised character of music in the early nineteenth century saw the emergence of a new, uniquely modern category of audience: the fan. ¹ The post-Napoleonic opera fan, in particular...

... character of music serves as a means to reveal the nature of art in general and literature in particular. Central to his enterprise is the creation of a character whose sensitivity to music is coupled with a capacity to describe in great detail the effect of listening on his mind. Beckett Samuel Proust...

...This chapter investigates the extent to which subjects base their judgments of linguistic distance on actual dialect data presented in a listening experiment and the extent to which they make use of previous knowledge of the dialects when making their judgments. The point of departure...