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In Sound Culture: Listening to Literature

Author(s): Andrzej Hejmej
Subject(s): Anthropology, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Media studies, Music, Geography, Regional studies, Human Geography, Communication studies, Sociology, Culture and social structure , Environmental interactions, Sociology of Art
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: literature; aural perception; sound studies; anthropology of sound; anthropology of the audiovisual

Summary/Abstract: Hejmej reflects on two fundamental questions: the first relates to sound (including voice) and the soundscape as a phenomenon that influences contemporary literature and its functioning in today’s media-dominated society; the second question, which builds on the first, explores the prospects of contemporary literary scholarship drawing on the anthropology of sound. Hejmej traces various scholars’ recent work in sound studies to highlight aural perception – ‘listening to culture,’ which leads him to argue for a new anthropology of the audiovisual – one that would build on analyses of both visual and acoustic space. Thus he analyses the new situation of a literature that, in today’s media-dominated world, relates to acoustic and acousmatic experiences. He proposes to treat literature not merely in terms of the written word (as accepted in traditional literary scholarship) but voice and scriptorality.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 88-102
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish