• The Sound of Nonsense

    Author(s):
    Richard Elliott (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Cultural Studies, Music and Sound, Sound Poetry
    Subject(s):
    Literature, Music, Sound poetry, Sound--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Book section
    Tag(s):
    nonsense, nonsense poetry, pop culture, Popular music, Sound studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6126D
    Abstract:
    ‘Watch the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves’; so says the Duchess in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. But can we be so sure of this? The Duchess, like her creator Lewis Carroll, often seems to put more emphasis on the sound of words than their sense, a technique that can also be detected in other written texts and in works of sound and music. The Sound of Nonsense highlights the importance of sound in understanding the ‘nonsense’ of writers such as Carroll, Edward Lear, James Joyce and Mervyn Peake, before connecting this noisy writing to works which engage more directly with sound, including sound poetry, experimental music and pop. By emphasising sonic factors, new connections are made between a wide range of artistic examples and a case is built for the importance of sound in creating, maintaining and disrupting meaning. A draft version of the book's introduction is deposited here.
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    Publisher:
    Bloomsbury Academic
    Pub. Date:
    2018
    Book Title:
    The Sound of Nonsense
    Author/Editor:
    Richard Elliott
    Chapter:
    Introduction
    ISBN:
    9781501324543
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    6 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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