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Multimodal Listening
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Christine M. Jacknick
Published: 16 March 2021
...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...
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The Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Music: Virtuous Performers and Well-Mannered Listeners
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Christopher Wiley
Published: 01 April 2020
... (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...
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Stendhal at La Scala: The Birth of Musical Fandom
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Gillen D’Arcy Wood
Published: 01 April 2020
... 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...
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Music in Proust: The Evolution of an Idea
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Mary Breatnach
Published: 01 April 2020
... 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...
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What Role does Dialect Knowledge Play in the Perception of Linguistic Distances?
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Wilbert Heeringa and others
Published: 04 December 2009
...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...
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Published: 01 February 2018
...Kim Longinotto’s films are known for ‘their control of emotion, apparently combining a rallying cry against social oppression while still retaining an effective confessional intimacy’, according to Murray. The author argues that Longinotto’s mode of address through an empathic listening, which...
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Introduction: Sounding Modernism 1890–1950
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Helen Groth and others
Published: 01 May 2017
... art Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Masnata Pino noise Piatti Ugo Pound Ezra radio Russolo Luigi telephone Beckett Samuel cinema Connor Steven Marcus Laura mediation recording sound studies Stewart Garrett acoustic Cuddy Keane Melba listening mimesis modernity phonograph rhythm...
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Published: 01 May 2017
...Writing in 1932, Christina Stead described the disappointing experience of listening to ‘a gramophone record of James Joyce the English litterateur, reading from his own works, a rare thing costing 200 francs’. The recording Stead was listening to was Joyce’s reading of the ending...
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Published: 01 January 2015
...This is an exploration of Kathleen Jamie’s ‘poetics of listening’, a consideration of the importance of ‘listening' within her poetic practice. A 'poetics of listening' is compared with the notion that a poet must first and foremost ‘find their voice’. Close examination of Jamie's poems suggests...
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Introduction
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João Pedro Cachopo and others
Published: 01 September 2020
... of the scene opsis scene Western art music listening logos mésentente phōnē speech voice Althusser Louis emancipation aesthetic revolution artistic modernity modernity politics rarity of politics of art theatre Wagner Richard dis identification modernism Nicolas François Darmstadt...
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Feedback, Asynchronicity and Sonic Sociabilities: Arnaud des Pallières’s Adieu
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Emilija Talijan
Published: 08 March 2022
... Greg sound bridges Comolli Jean Louis Arnaud des Pallières Alterity Migration Noise Asynchronicity Feedback Listening Sound bridges Community This chapter addresses the potential for cinema to orient us through sound towards a world of strangers. Whereas Chapter 3 showed how migratory...
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Early Radio: An Anthology of European Texts and Translations
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Emilie Morin (ed.) and Emilie Morin (ed.)
Published online: 18 January 2024
Published in print: 31 May 2023
..., listening and writing by radio enthusiasts, journalists, actors, radio producers and literary authors who conceptualised the new radio aesthetic between the two world wars and reflected on radio’s future, as a medium requiring the invention of a new literature, new modes of performance and new ways...
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Reading the Human Drama in Film and Fiction
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Wyatt Moss-Wellington
Published: 01 November 2019
... Hollywood masculinity Grodal Torben altruism competition pop psychology conservatism political Darwin Charles news media care postmodernity Plantinga Carl Humanism hermeneutics complexity listening vulnerability antihumanism the Other character cognitivism anthropology If I mention...
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Listening for Theatrical Form in Early Modern England
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Allison K. Deutermann
Published online: 18 January 2018
Published in print: 01 July 2016
... taught to hear these plays differently. Revenge tragedies by William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd imagine sound stabbing, piercing and slicing into listeners' bodies on and off the stage; while comedies by Ben Jonson and John Marston imagine it being sampled selectively and according to taste...
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Overlapping Intimacies: Russian Fever, Domestic Morale and the BBC Home Service, 1941–5
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Claire Davison
Published: 01 September 2020
... 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...
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Shelley’s Musical Gifts
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Gillen D’Arcy Wood
Published: 01 April 2020
...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...
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Listening to the Late Cantos
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Kristin Grogan
Published: 01 May 2017
... 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...
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Published: 01 January 2015
... 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...
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Published: 08 March 2022
... 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...
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‘Caviare to the General’?: Taste, Hearing and Genre in Hamlet
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Allison K. Deutermann
Published: 01 July 2016
... 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 ...