The literary ear. Artistic aspects of listening

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DOI :

https://doi.org/10.60056/CCL.2022..190-206

Ключови думи :

listening, acoustic image, audiophile, noise, silence

Абстракт

The article aims to distinguish hearing from the sensory ensemble that nourishes the literary text and to reveal its sometimes driving force in the narrative. It takes the form of a triptych and each part contributes to discovering the importance of auditory images for the suggestive force of the literary text. The figures of hearing, much less studied than those of vision, offer a surprising point of view on the text. Attention is therefore focused on three aspects of hearing, which could be a) informative, b) distorting or c) creative. It has been known since Shakespeare that noise is a synonym of life, and that listening is a vital commitment. To live is to accept also the hubbub of the crowd, the din of the world – with its words, lies and illusions. The rest... is silence.

Авторска биография

  • Автор: Маргарита Серафимова, Българска академия на науките

    Margarita Serafimova [Маргарита Серафимова], ScD (Institute for Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Comparative Literature), is the author of books on epistolary art (The Letter and the Novel, “St. Kliment Ohridski” University Press, 2001), on the role of places in the construction of meaning (Space in Literature, Veliko Tarnovo, Faber, 2018), about Orhan Pamuk’s novel My Name Is Red (From the Ottoman Miniature to the Postmodern Novel, Veliko Tarnovo, Faber, 2020), as well as of numerous articles on literary and cultural history. Member of the Academic Circle for Comparative Literature (Sofia), of the Bulgarian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and of CELIS (Centre de recherches sur les littératures et la sociopoétique), Clermont-Ferrand, France.

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Публикуван

06-11-2025

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Раздел (Секция)

V. ACADEMIC ESSAY

Как да цитирате

The literary ear. Artistic aspects of listening. (2025). Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum, 8, 190-206. https://doi.org/10.60056/CCL.2022..190-206