Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies - Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies - 31 - Table of Contents

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A structured table of contents for Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies, a Routledge research work in cultural and media studies. The book is organized into multiple parts that examine sound and media through literary remediations, dramatic broadcasting, and audio technologies such as tape recorders and phone-based poetry systems. It also addresses close listening practices, audiobook narration, voice and reader experience, and the political and cultural meanings carried by recorded literature across genres, periods, and audiences.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages266

Reading Time11 h 10 min

AccessFree to download

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction: Talking Books

Contents

PART I: Sound Experiments

PART II: Close Listenings

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies 1. Video, War and the Diasporic Imagination Dona Kolar-Panov 2. Reporting the Israeli-Arab Conﬂict How Hegemony Works Tamar Liebes 3. Karaoke Around the World Global Technology, Local Singing Edited by Toru Mitsui and Shuhei Hosokawa 4. News of the World World Cultures Look at Television News Edited by Klaus Bruhn Jensen 5. From Satellite to Single Market New Communication Technology and European Public Service Television Richard Collins 6. The Nationwide Television Studies David Morley and Charlotte Bronsdon 7. The New Communications Landscape Demystifying Media Globalization Edited by Georgette Wang, Jan Servaes, and Anura Goonasekera 8. Media and Migration Constructions of Mobility and Difference Edited by Russel King and Nancy Wood 9. Media Reform Democratizing the Media, Democratizing the State Edited by Monroe E. Price, Beata Rozumilowicz, and Stefaan G. Verhulst 10. Political Communication in a New Era Edited by Gadi Wolfsfeld and Philippe Maarek 11. Writers’ Houses and the Making of Memory Edited by Harald Hendrix 12. Autism and Representation Edited by Mark Osteen 13. American Icons The Genesis of a National Visual Language Benedikt Feldges 14. The Practice of Public Art Edited by Cameron Cartiere and Shelly Willis 15. Film and Television After DVD Edited by James Bennett and Tom Brown 16. The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800–2007 Edited by John Potvin 17. Communicating in the Third Space Edited by Karin Ikas and Gerhard Wagner 18. Deconstruction After 9/11 Martin McQuillan 19. The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero Edited by Angela Ndalianis 20. Mobile Technologies From Telecommunications to Media Edited by Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth 21. Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination The Image between the Visible and the Invisible Edited by Bernd Huppauf and Christoph Wulf 22. Cities, Citizens, and Technologies Urban Life and Postmodernity Paula Geyh 23. Trauma and Media Theories, Histories, and Images Allen Meek 24. Letters, Postcards, Email Technologies of Presence Esther Milne 25. International Journalism and Democracy Civic Engagement Models from Around the World Edited by Angela Romano 26. Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art Performing Migration Edited by Rocío G. Davis, Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, and Johanna C. Kardux 27. Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body Cassandra Jackson 28. Cognitive Poetics and Cultural Memory Russian Literary Mnemonics Mikhail Gronas 29. Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory Brett Ashley Kaplan 30. Emotion, Genre, and Justice in Film and Television E. Deidre Pribram 31. Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies Edited by Matthew Rubery Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies Edited by Matthew Rubery New York London First published 2011 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2011. To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of [eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk](eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk). © 2011 Taylor & Francis The right of Matthew Rubery to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in wri

FAQs

What main parts organize the book’s content?

The contents are divided into PART I (Sound Experiments) and PART II (Close Listenings), each grouping chapters around related approaches to audio and literature.

Which chapter topics appear under Sound Experiments?

Chapters address themes such as Victorian novels remediated into sound, literary dramatization on radio, tape recorder-driven literature, phone-and-phonograph poetry systems, and audiobook versions of narrative works.

What does Close Listenings focus on?

Close Listenings examines narration and reader experience, including concepts like the audiobook narrator’s voice, narrative authority, and performance dimensions in audiobook texts.

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