NERVOUS SOUNDS: AUDITIVE ASPECTS IN AMERICAN CITY TEXTS
Abstract
The article deals with sounds and noises as a new field of studies. It is my intention to establish a link between Modernism as a period defined by literary and cultural history on the one hand and soundscape studies on the other. The article concentrates on historical Modernism and on city sounds in American literature. My questions are: What is the history of sound in US-American literary texts? What are the functions of sounds in city novels and plays around 1900?
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