The Incidence of Aural Incursions in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September and Iris Murdoch’s The Red and the Green
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8865564 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arka Basu (0000-0002-9315-4628, University of Auckland, corresponding author), Farah Nada (0000-0003-1692-9060, Department of English and Film, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 753-776 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-838X • E-ISSN: 1744-4217 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0013838x.2022.2043031 |
| OpenAlex | W4220855888 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
Literary portraits of Ireland’s independence struggle, following advances in acoustic technologies, exhibit a pronounced sound consciousness. Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September (1929) and Iris Murdoch’s The Red and the Green (1965), informed by listening as replicable experience, exhibit the incidence of aural incursion: the capturing and processing of sound into information to uncover the self’s place in the world. In Murdoch’s work, antagonisms develop among a family of Dubliners from secretions of sound, revealing the aural composition of social and national identity, the spatial politics of Britain in Ireland, and the perils of covert listening. Emphasising sound’s demarcative properties, Bowen’s chronicle unfolds through sonic overflow, articulating dichotomies between estate and state, origin and echo, and sonic overload and silence to expose a Big House’s contentious place in Ireland. Developing distinct Anglo-Irish soundscapes, both novels explore how the sonic realities of military broadcasting and surveillance infiltrate civilian life and signal revolution
Acoustics · Active listening · Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Independence (probability theory · Irish · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Silence · Sociology · Sound (geography · Soundscape · Visual arts · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Sound Studies and Aurality · Visual Culture and Art Theory · History · Law · Philosophy
Noise
The Dialogic Imagination
Elizabeth Bowen
People, Places, Things – Essays by Elizabeth Bowen
The Wireless Past
Behavior in Public Places
Elizabeth Bowen
Big House Burnings in County Cork during the Irish Revolution, 1920–21
Sounds
Elizabeth Bowen
Victorian Soundscapes
British Spies and Irish Rebels
Acoustic modernism
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |