[Vwoolf] Sound in Mrs. Dalloway

[Annette Oxindine]

Dear Wyatt, 

Your student also may want to consult Melba Cuddy-Keane's "Modernist Soundscapes and the Intelligent Ear: An Approach to Narrative Theory through Auditory Perception," in A Companion to Narrative Theory. Ed. Phelan and Rabinowitz, pub. in 2005. The chapter addresses the "increased auditory awareness" that results from "urban soundscapes" in Woolf's short fiction and novels; Cuddy-Keane frames her discussion as part of her larger project "to promote the development of a critical methodology and a vocabulary for analyzing narrative representations of sound" (382). Although the essay contains only one page directly addressing MD, it's very useful for thinking about sound in Woolf's urban landscapes.

Cuddy-Keane's chapter also engages a very fine essay by Rishona Zimring about sound in The Years: "Suggestions of Other Worlds: The Art of Sound in The Years." Woolf Studies Annual 8 (2002). 

Also see Angela Frattarola's "Developing an Ear for the Modernist Novel: Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, and James Joyce" in the Journal of Modern Literature 33.1 (2009). It contains a useful list of works cited as well.

In the past few years, I've been delighted by how many undergraduates are truly intrigued by Mrs Dalloway in a way that did not seem to be the case a decade or so ago.

Best,
Annette Oxindine
Wright State University

On Jan 27, 2014, at 9:56 AM, Elizabeth Evans <evansef at gmail.com> wrote:

Anna Snaith's larger argument, which Vara refers to, appears in her new edition of The Years (Cambridge). 


Best wishes,
Liz

Elizabeth F. Evans
University of Notre Dame






On Jan 27, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Neverow, Vara S. <neverowv1 at southernct.edu> wrote:

> And there's this material (it's just a snippet of a larger argument)
> 
> Anna Snaith • The Years, Street Music, and Acoustic Space (abstract of plenary address) ................................................................................................... 17
> 
> http://www.clemson.edu/cedp/cudp/pubs/vwcon/19.pdf
> 
> 
> 
> From: Emily Kopley <emily.kopley at gmail.com>
> Date: Monday, January 27, 2014 7:45 AM
> To: Georgia Johnston <johnstgk at slu.edu>
> Cc: VWOOLF listserv <vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Sound in Mrs. Dalloway
> 
> Dear Wyatt,
> 
> Scholarship on VW and music and on poetry+rhythm comes to mind. For music, there's Emma Sutton's new book with Edinburgh UP and Emilie Crapoulet's essay in the Bloomsbury Heritage series (and the bibliographies of these will also point your student to useful articles); on poetry+rhythm, your student might begin with Garrett Stewart's chapter on The Waves in his Reading Voices.
> 
> Best,
> Emily
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Georgia Johnston <johnstgk at slu.edu> wrote:
>> Dear Wyatt,
>> 
>> Pamela Caughie has published great scholarship on sound.  See her
>> piece in Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (2000).
>> She has some later essays also.
>> I published a very early piece on the gramophone and Woolf--First
>> Selected VW Conference essays.
>> 
>> all the best,
>> Georgia Johnston
>> 
>> On 1/26/14, Wyatt Bonikowski <wyattbonikowski at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear Woolfians,
>>> 
>>> I have an undergraduate student writing an honors thesis on Mrs.
>>> Dalloway, and she is particularly interested in how Woolf uses sound
>>> in the novel. The student is interested not only in Woolf's use of
>>> sound to portray the experience of the city but also how sound often
>>> prompts an investigation into the nature of the self. (For this, she
>>> is also investigating sound in relation to "moments of being" in "A
>>> Sketch of the Past.") I was wondering if anyone knows of critical
>>> works that address these issues in the novel or in Woolf's work more
>>> generally. She has found a number of good sources, but I am concerned
>>> that she might be missing more that would be useful to her project.
>>> 
>>> Thank you for your help.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> 
>>> Wyatt Bonikowski
>>> Associate Professor
>>> English Department
>>> Suffolk University
>>> Boston, MA
>>> 
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> Emily Kopley
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> McGill University, Department of English
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