{"product_id":"audio-book","title":"Audio Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAudio Book\u003c\/i\u003e deals with the ways in which the auditory—voices, sounds, noises—is represented in postphonograph narrative fiction. More specifically, it examines how the various technologies enabling the transmission or storing of sound and voice are figured in selected prose works. Drawing from contemporary American, British, French, and German literature, the author discusses these use of these technologies in Nicholson Baker's \u003ci\u003eVox\u003c\/i\u003e, Michel Tournier's \u003ci\u003eTristan Vox\u003c\/i\u003e, Heinrich Böll's \u003ci\u003eMurke's Collected Silences\u003c\/i\u003e, Don DeLillo's \u003ci\u003eThe Body Artist\u003c\/i\u003e, Nick Hornby's \u003ci\u003eHigh Fidelity\u003c\/i\u003e, and Sylvia Brownrigg's \u003ci\u003eThe Metaphysical Touch\u003c\/i\u003e. The texts foreground sound technologies (the telephone, radio, tape recorder, answering machine, record player, or, counterintuitively, e-mail) in their narration and manifest important aspects of audio in literature. In prior criticism, these texts have not been systematically read from media-technological perspectives.\u003cbr\u003eThe sound technologies represented in the texts problematize the clear distinction between speech and writing, or between \"natural\" articulation and its technological reproduction. \u003ci\u003eAudio Book\u003c\/i\u003e suggests that literary writing is metaphorically conceivable as a transmitting and storing technology, as an audiobook of sorts, capable of recording (upon writing) and reproducing (upon reading) auditory information. The sound technologies proper have also bearing on the narrative structure, metaphorics, and style of each fictional work studied in \u003ci\u003eAudio Book\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition, themes such as identity, genre, the nature of literary representation, and the absence\/presence problem are brought to the fore on account of the technologies depicted.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54257087807832,"sku":"9780739118313","price":107.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780739118313_6e7cc993-46f4-4115-8f1e-0183a805ec1e.jpg?v=1769826634","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/audio-book","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}