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Author Weiss, Allen S

Title Breathless : Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and the Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia
Published Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (199 pages)
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Purity of Essence; Chapter 2: Death's Murmur; Chapter 3: Erotic Nostalgia and the Inscription of Desire; Chapter 4: Narcissistic Machines and Erotic Prostheses; Chapter 5: Libidinous Mannerisms and Profligate Abominations; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Summary Explores how early radio and sound recording influenced modernist literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Death in literature.
Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
Sound recordings.
Death in literature
Literature, Modern
Sound recordings
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780819572523
0819572527
0819565911
081956592X
9780819565921
9780819565914