Literature and Sound
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 April 2025 | Viewed by 168
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Portuguese and Brazilian literatures; literature and music; environmental humanities; fictional soundscapes; dictatorship and cultural resistance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
What does it mean to say that literature is sonorous? How does sound shape activities such as reading and writing across cultures and traditions? This Special Issue of Humanities explores these and related questions by examining the role of sound in comparative literary studies from the nineteenth century to today. From more traditional phonological analysis to explorations of rhythm, soundscapes, listening practices, and new technologies, this Special Issue looks to serve as a touchstone for new and innovative work in literary studies—work focused primarily on the ear rather than the eye. Areas of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Linguistics;
- Rhythmanalysis;
- Performance;
- Ethnography;
- Philosophy;
- Musicology;
- New technologies.
Dr. Luca Bacchini
Dr. Vincent Barletta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- listening
- aurality
- ethnography of literacy
- phonology
- music
- modernity
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