Loudness in the novel
- The novel is composed entirely of voices: the most prominent among them is typically that of the narrator, which is regularly intermixed with those of the various characters. In reading through a novel, the reader "hears" these heterogeneous voices as they occur in the text. When the novel is read out loud, the voices are audibly heard. They are also heard, however, when the novel is read silently: in this la!er case, the voices are not verbalized for others to hear, but acoustically created and perceived in the mind of the reader. Simply put: sound, in the context of the novel, is fundamentally a product of the novel’s voices. This conception of sound mechanics may at first seem unintuitive—sound seems to be the product of oral reading—but it is only by starting with the voice that one can fully appreciate sound’s function in the novel. Moreover, such a conception of sound mechanics finds affirmation in the works of both Mikhail Bakhtin and Elaine Scarry: "In the novel," writes Bakhtin, "we can always hear voices (even while reading silently to ourselves)."
Author: | Holst Katsma |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-469588 |
URL: | https://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet7.pdf |
ISSN: | 2164-1757 |
Parent Title (English): | Stanford Literary Lab: Pamphlets ; 7 |
Series (Serial Number): | Pamphlets of the Stanford Literary Lab (7) |
Publisher: | Stanford Literary Lab |
Place of publication: | Stanford |
Document Type: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2018 |
Date of first Publication: | 2014/09/01 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Contributing Corporation: | Stanford Literary Lab |
Release Date: | 2018/07/13 |
GND Keyword: | Roman; Stimme; Romangestalt; Lautstärke; Digital Humanities; Dialoganalyse |
Page Number: | 27 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 434673617 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Stanford Literary Lab | |
BDSL-Klassifikation: | 03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft / BDSL-Klassifikation: 03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft > 03.03.00 Studien |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |