... language sound poetics verbal art semiotics ...

... features of everyday speech acts, the ways language pervades all forms of human endeavor, and the shared indexical and iconic associations of all forms of sounded expression. Lost in excisions of sound from language are considerations of voice and performance, speech play and verbal art, the affective...

... specificity of print. The chapter highlights the interplay of the verbal and the visual in the novels of Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Joe Sacco, Nadeem Aslam, and Kevin Powers and traces in them a new structure of address and a new orientation toward distant suffering and a wider circuit of mediating publics...

... conceived of as both utopian and egalitarian. The visual and verbal strategies that accompanied the rise of the girlscape are related to the highly political “landscape theory” developed in Japan in the late 1960s and early 1970s—a prominent discussion of how power structures life in a rapidly transforming...

... This chapter explores the experience of improvisation as a process of listening that is first accessed by the nonverbal body and later understood by the verbal brain. A comparison is drawn between the time delay between evoked potentials and cognition (Libet) and the time delay between...

... and in fact a survival strategy, and he urges all bottoms to let go of the values of the old age of romantic persuasion, such as modesty, subtlety, and artifice and replace them with exuberant appreciation of their partners’ sexual organs. Although the age of sexual persuasion is marked by verbal excess...

.../destruction are also one of the things that the melancholic enacts in relation to the objects she or he loves. The chapter closes with a discussion of two examples where this analysis could expand feminist thinking: Judith Butler’s response to being verbally attacked, and feminist/critical commentary...

... violence, ongoing structural violence, and deeper memories of colonial rule and slave trades, this justice experiment generated a potentially dangerous doubling of the relationship among verbal testimony, responsibility, and accountability. I explore this doubling and its consequences through two...

... to the melancholic. Rather, losses/attacks/destruction are also one of the things that the melancholic enacts in relation to the objects she or he loves. The chapter closes with a discussion of two examples where this analysis could expand feminist thinking: Judith Butler’s response to being verbally attacked...

... years of war, a thirty-year legacy of state violence, ongoing structural violence, and deeper memories of colonial rule and slave trades, this justice experiment generated a potentially dangerous doubling of the relationship among verbal testimony, responsibility, and accountability. I explore...

...Technology and Embodiment This chapter explores the experience of improvisation as a process of listening that is first accessed by the nonverbal body and later understood by the verbal brain. A comparison is drawn between the time delay between evoked potentials and cognition (Libet...

... of a consumer culture conceived of as both utopian and egalitarian. The visual and verbal strategies that accompanied the rise of the girlscape are related to the highly political “landscape theory” developed in Japan in the late 1960s and early 1970s—a prominent discussion of how power structures life...