"A dying vibration": Sound and Silence in Heart of Darkness. (16th January 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- "A dying vibration": Sound and Silence in Heart of Darkness. (16th January 2017)
- Main Title:
- "A dying vibration"
- Authors:
- Rawson, Eric
- Abstract:
- Abstract : Conrad's jarring juxtapositions of sound and silence in Heart of Darkness emphasize the epistemological and ontological concerns of a narrative the stands at the threshold of the modern information age, in which the sounds of the world are being rapidly reorganized into an electroacoustical coding and decoding of information that collapses traditional notions of the communicative availability of the aural. While not as immediately engaging as the novel's fraught visual imagery, the soundscape of Heart of Darkness shapes Marlow's – and the reader's – understanding of his African journey.
- Is Part Of:
- Orbis litterarum. Volume 72:Number 1(2017)
- Journal:
- Orbis litterarum
- Issue:
- Volume 72:Number 1(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 72, Issue 1 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 72
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0072-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 36
- Page End:
- 50
- Publication Date:
- 2017-01-16
- Subjects:
- Conrad -- sound studies -- Heart of Darkness -- soundscape
Literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
809 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/oli ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1600-0730 ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/oli.12121 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0105-7510
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library DSC - 6277.865000
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- 2717.xml