Inside the Ear: Silence, Self-Observation, and Embodied Spaces in Kafka's 'Der Bau'
| Autor: | Tyler Whitney |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Cultural Studies
Subjectivity Literature and Literary Theory media_common.quotation_subject Modernity 06 humanities and the arts 060401 art practice history & theory 060202 literary studies Sound studies Silence Scholarship Aesthetics Embodied cognition Perception Reading (process) 0602 languages and literature Sociology 0604 arts media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory. 92:301-319 |
| ISSN: | 1930-6962 0016-8890 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00168890.2017.1329701 |
| Popis: | Drawing on conceptual and historiographic resources from the emerging field of sound studies, this essay situates Franz Kafka's unfinished literary text “Der Bau” (1923/24) alongside scientific practices of auditory (self-)observation and the study of subjective noises around 1900. In doing so, I show how recent interdisciplinary discussions of sound and auditory perception might be utilized to open up new ways of reading canonical modernist texts. Conversely, I mobilize Kafka's text in order to complicate existing accounts of acoustical modernity, which tend to prioritize scientific and technical accounts over the literary and, in the process, modes of objective observation and technological disembodiment over those of embodied listening. If existing scholarship on “Der Bau” has tended to focus on psychological issues such as madness and paranoia, I read the work as a meditation on the corporeality of listening and its potentially destabilizing implications for subjectivity and perceptual experience. The... |
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