UID:
almahu_9949386941402882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781000405644
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1000405648
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9781003097372
,
1003097375
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9781000405668
,
1000405664
Series Statement:
Routledge research in American literature and culture
Content:
Mixed Media in Contemporary American Literature: Voices Gone Viral investigates the formation and formulation of the contemporary novel through a historical analysis of voice studies and media studies. After situating research through voices of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, this book examines the expressions of a multi-media vocality, examining the interactions among cultural polemics, aesthetic forms, and changing media in the twenty-first century. The novel studies shown here trace the ways in which the viral aesthetics of the contemporary novel move language out of context, recontextualizing human testimony by galvanizing mixed media forms that shape contemporary literature in our age of networks. Through readings of American authors such as Claudia Rankine, David Foster Wallace, Jennifer Egan, Junot Daz, Michael Chabon, Joseph O'Neill, Michael Cunningham, and Colum McCann, the book considers how voice acts as a site where identities combine, conform, and are questioned relationally. By listening to and tracing the spoken and unspoken voices of the novel, the author identifies a politics of listening and speaking in our mediated, informational society.
Note:
Facing the voices of the imagetext in Claudia Rankine's Citizen -- Voices within the neoliberal machine in David Foster Wallace's The pale king -- Listening to the vocal remix and surround sound of Jennifer Egan's Goon squad -- Vocal and comic deformance in Michael Chabon and Junot Díaz -- The m/other tongues of Michel Cunningham, Joseph O'Neill, and Colum McCann.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780367563516
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0367563517
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003097372
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003097372
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