| Description |
This interdisciplinary course examines authors who formally experiment with the writing of sound. To put a deep voice, a shout, or a minor scale to words creates a host of critical and creative conundrums for a writer; the reading of such arrangements makes parallel challenges for the reader. Such work is too often taken up with a despairing ethos: much is said to "go lost" in the transfer from sound to page. This course does not presume the demise of such runaway matter, but considers it as thriving with philosophical possibility. What does the impossibility of sound's capture make possible for literature and criticism? |