Invisible Voices: Archiving Sound as Sight in Marcel Beyer's "Karnau Tapes"

This essay probes the topical emphasis on acoustic concerns within Marcel Beyer's 1995 novel, The Karnau Tapes, in order to demonstrate how transitory, auditory elements are repeatedly documented by visual and ostensibly more permanent models that fail to contain them.

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Published inMosaic (Winnipeg) Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 19 - 35
Main Author FLEISHMAN, IAN THOMAS
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Winnipeg University of Manitoba 01.06.2009
University of Manitoba, Mosaic
MOSAIC
Subjects
Acoustics
Analysis
Archives
Authors
Beyer, Marcel
Beyer, Marcel (1965- )
Children
Criticism and interpretation
Literary criticism
Mnemonics
Mosaic
Narrators
Novels
Sound
Sound recordings
Voice
Voiced sounds
Writers
Writing
Germany
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Summary:This essay probes the topical emphasis on acoustic concerns within Marcel Beyer's 1995 novel, The Karnau Tapes, in order to demonstrate how transitory, auditory elements are repeatedly documented by visual and ostensibly more permanent models that fail to contain them.
ISSN:0027-1276
1925-5683