
Reviews
The Sound of Writing makes a substantial contribution to scholarship about the relations among various writing systems and the aural dimensions of literary cultures. An especially notable achievement of this collection is that its contributors bring established methods of prosody and manuscript analysis to bear upon broader, messier, more generative questions about sound and inscription.
The Sound of Writing is a significant contribution to the material history of literature. Its essays often remind us of the immodest assumptions we unconsciously make when opening a book or a score from hundreds of years past and turn us back to our own implications in the layers of mediation and artifacts of inscription that are closer to being 'the object at hand.' This is good and sobering advice.
Book Details
Introduction, by Steven Justice and Christopher Cannon
1. The Sounds and Matter of Women in Ancient Greek Epigrams, by Sarah Nooter
2. Reading Impressions: The Sound of the Sight of Occitan Verse, by
Introduction, by Steven Justice and Christopher Cannon
1. The Sounds and Matter of Women in Ancient Greek Epigrams, by Sarah Nooter
2. Reading Impressions: The Sound of the Sight of Occitan Verse, by Sarah Kay
3. Voices and Bees: The Evolution of Charles Butler's Sounded Book, by Jennifer Richards
4. Lone Halflines and Metrical Collage in Piers Plowman, by Ian Cornelius
5. Latin Verse in Old English Accents, by Emily Thornbury
6. The Writing of Sound, by Meredith Martin
7. Music Writing and Music History in a Thirteenth-Century Song, by Sean Curran
8. "Where the sì sounds": Dante's Dissonant Vernaculars and Their Sensual Signs, by Alison Cornish
9. The Phenomenology of -e, by Christopher Cannon
10. Writing Reading Rhythm, by Christopher Hasty