The Novel and the Multispecies Soundscape

by Ben De Bruyn

Book Overview

The contemporary novel is not as silent as we tend to believe, nor does it only attend to human plots and characters. As this book shows, writers in a range of subgenres have devoted considerable attention to the voices of nonhuman animals, and to the histories and technologies of listening that shape twenty-first-century cultures and environments. In doing so, their multispecies novels illuminate the cultural meanings we attach to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030301249
• ISBN13: 9783030301248
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"