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To Hear the Other: Voice Deposited in Text in the Context of Acousmatic Culture

Summary/Abstract: The article studies how the acousmatic experience of literature revises and expands theconcept of the voice deposited in poetry. The author analyzes existing interpretationsof voice and poetic voice from the perspective of acousmatic theories. These theoriesredefine Western notions of the agency of voice as a metaphor of power and specificidentity (which reduce voice to its representative functions). Therefore, the author statesthat experiencing the agency of the voice deposited in poetry may resemble experiencingthe acousmatic voice. In turn, this allows one to experience the presence of the Otherrather than merely its representation. According to the author, we can grasp the influenceof the voice in a poem through the category of “excess,” which expresses resistance to thestructural logic of language. Referring to examples from contemporary Polish engagedpoetry, the author examines the category of excess in three possible configurations.

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