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Navigating urban soundscapes : Dublin and Los Angeles in fiction / Annika Eisenberg.

9783031167348 (electronic bk.)
3031167341 (electronic bk.)
9783031167331
3031167333

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

English

1 online resource (xii, 244 pages).

10.1007/978-3-031-16734-8 doi

PN56.S6665

809.93321732

Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction offers an innovative analytical framework to explore sound in different media and across two distinct urban soundscapes. Studying a wide range of novels, films, and radio dramas, using Dublin and Los Angeles as case studies, Annika Eisenberg asks how sounds are aestheticised to signify urban space in fiction, and how sounds allow such fictional urban spaces to be navigated, both by auscultators, the characters listening within a work of fiction, and by auditeurs, the implied audience of a fictional work. Eisenberg argues that the concept of "urban sound" is a cultural and aesthetic construct, and in doing so, she shows why aesthetics needs to be front and center in sound studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Literary urban studies, 2523-7896

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