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"This study examines postmodern literature-- including works by Kurt Vonnegut, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Ishmael Reed, and Thomas Pynchon --arguing that one of the formal logics of postmodern fiction is heterophonia: a pluralism of sound. The postmodern novel not only bears earwitness to a crucial period in American aural history, but it also offers a critique of the American soundscape by rebroadcasting extant technological discourses. Working chronologically through four audio transmission technologies of the twentieth century (the player piano, radio, television audio, and Muzak installations), St. Clair charts the tendency of ever-proliferating audio streams to become increasingly subsumed as background sound. The postmodern novel attends specifically to this background sound, warning that inattention to the increasingly complex sonic backdrop allows for ever more sophisticated techniques of aural manipulation--from advertising jingles to mood-altering ambient sound. Building upon interdisciplinary work from the emerging field of sound culture studies, this book ultimately contends that a complementary, yet seemingly contradictory double logic characterizes the postmodern novel's engagement with narratives of aural influence. On the one hand, such narratives echo and amplify postwar fiction's media anxiety; on the other hand, they allow print fiction to appropriate the techniques of aural media. This dialectical engagement with media aurality--this simultaneous impulse to repudiate and to utilize--is the central mechanism of the heterophonic novel."--Publisher's website.

American fiction --- American fiction. --- Fiktion. --- Literatur. --- Music in literature. --- Noise in literature. --- Sound in literature. --- Ton. --- History and criticism --- 1900-1999. --- Amerika.

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Drawing upon such diverse sources as the archives of antinoise activists and radio advertisers, catalogs of fireworks and dental drills, and daybooks of physicists, travel diaries and civil defense pamphlets, Schwartz traces the process by which noise today has become as powerfully metaphorical as the original Babel. When did the "silent deeps" become cacophonous and galaxies begin to swim in a sea of cosmic noise ? Why do we think that noises have colors and that colors can be loud ? How loud is too loud, and says who ? Attending, as ears do, to a surround of sounds at once physical and political, Hillel Schwartz listens across millennia for changes in the Western experience and understanding of noise. From the uproarious junior gods of Babylonian epics to crying infants heard over baby monitors, from doubly mythic Echo to amplifier feedback, from shouts frozen in Rabelaisian air to the squawk of loudspeakers and the static of shortwave radio, Making Noise follows "unwanted sound" on its surprisingly revealing path through terrains domestic and industrial, urban and rural, legal and religious, musical and medical, poetic and scientific. At every stage, readers can hear the cultural reverberations of the historical soundwork of actresses, admen, anthropologists, astronomers, builders, composers, dentists, economists, engineers, filmmakers, firemen, grammar school teachers, jailers, nurses, oceanographers, pastors, philosophers, poets, psychologists, and the writers of children's books.

Noise pollution --- Noise --- Noise in literature. --- Sounds --- Sound --- History. --- Psychological aspects. --- Psychological aspects.. --- Social aspects. --- Noise in literature --- Pollution --- Acoustics --- Continuum mechanics --- Mathematical physics --- Physics --- Pneumatics --- Radiation --- Wave-motion, Theory of --- Sound effects --- Manners and customs --- History --- Psychological aspects --- Social aspects --- Psychology --- Son --- Bruit --- Psychologie --- Histoire de la musique --- Histoire de l'art

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Classical literature --- Sound in literature. --- Noise in literature. --- Littérature ancienne --- Son dans la littérature --- Bruit dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Sounds in literature. --- Littérature ancienne --- Son dans la littérature --- Bruit dans la littérature

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Between late antiquity and the fifteenth century, theologians, philosophers, and poets struggled to articulate the correct relationship between sound and sense, creating taxonomies of sounds based on their capacity to carry meaning. This book traces how medieval thinkers adopted the concept of noise as a mode of lay understanding grounded in the body and the senses. With a broadly interdisciplinary approach, the book examines a range of literary genres to highlight the poetic and social effects of this vibrant discourse, offering close readings of works by Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, as well as the mystics Richard Rolle and Margery Kempe. Each of these writers embraced an embodied experience of language resistant to clear articulation, even as their work reflects inherited anxieties about the appeal of such sensations.

English literature --- Noise in literature. --- Themes, motives. --- Rolle, Richard, --- Kempe, Margery, --- Langland, William, --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- England --- Intellectual life --- Epistemology, Medieval thinking, sound and sense, Chaucer, Langland, Richard Rolle, and Margery Kempe.

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Uit de Nederlandse literatuur klinkt meer dan eens feestelijke drukte of krijgshaftig geraas op. Ook al zijn de teksten niet zelden in een feestelijk kleedje gestoken, in de gehanteerde beeldspraak, in het verhaal dat ze vertellen of bij de zoektocht naar een plaats in de literatuur overheerst vaak het strijdgewoel. De literaire teksten fungeren niet alleen als projectiescherm voor het strijdtoneel, maar spelen zelf ook mee als hulpmiddel in de strijd, als de te bestrijden vijand en zelfs als ultiem streefdoel van het gevecht. In deze bundel brengen zes literatuuronderzoekers verslag uit van het lawaai dat ze horen opstijgen uit Nederlandstalige romans, gedichten, pamfletten en liederen van de Middeleeuwen tot nu. Zij vertellen hoe zang en geschreeuw, rumoer en gelach, protest en gejuich zich in deze luidruchtige bundel een plaats hebben weten te veroveren.

Thematology --- Dutch literature --- Fasts and feasts in literature --- Noise in literature --- Themes, motives --- 378.18:82 --- 378.18 <493 LEUVEN> --- 378.4 <493 LEUVEN> --- Academic collection --- 82.04 --- Studenten: statuut. Maatschappelijke problemen van studenten-:-Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap --- Studenten: statuut. Maatschappelijke problemen van studenten--België--LEUVEN --- Universiteiten--België--LEUVEN --- Literaire thema's --- Fasts and feasts in literature. --- Noise in literature. --- Themes, motives. --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- 378.4 <493 LEUVEN> Universiteiten--België--LEUVEN --- 378.18 <493 LEUVEN> Studenten: statuut. Maatschappelijke problemen van studenten--België--LEUVEN --- 378.18:82 Studenten: statuut. Maatschappelijke problemen van studenten-:-Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap --- Flemish literature --- 378.4 <493 LEUVEN> Universities--Belgium--LEUVEN --- Universities--Belgium--LEUVEN --- Dutch literature - Themes, motives --- LITTERATURE NEERLANDAISE --- VIOLENCE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- COMBAT DANS LA LITTERATURE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE