Sound Of Writing - Christopher Cannon

An Interdisciplinary Exploration Of How Writers Have Conveyed Sound Through Text.edited By Christopher Cannon And Steven Justice, The Sound Of Writing Explores The Devices And Techniques That Writers Have To Represent Sound And How They Have Changed Over Time. Contributors Consider How Writing Has Channeled Sounds As Varied As The Human Voice And The Buzzing Of Bees Using Not Only Alphabets But Also The Resources Of The Visual And Musical Arts. Cannon And Justice Have Assembled A Constellation Of Classicists, Medievalists, Modernists, Literary Historians, And Musicologists To Trace The Sound Of Writing From The Beginning Of The Western Record To Poetry Written In The Last Century.