Mikko Keskinen is adjunct professor at the University of Jyväskylä, the University of Helsinki, and the University of Tampere.

• Chapter 1 DedicationChapter 2 Table of ContentsChapter 3 AcknowledgementsChapter 4 IntroductionChapter 5 1Voces Intimae: Electro-Erotic Speech in Nicholson Baker'sVoxChapter 6 2 Voices Doubles: Auditory Identities in Michel Tournier's Tristan VoxChapter 7 3 The Cases of Radio Silence: Recorded Reticence and Revisory Declension in Heinrich Böll's "Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen"Chapter 8 4 Single, Long-Playing, and Compilation: The Formats of Audio and Amourousness in Nick Hornby's High FidelityChapter 9 5 The Ghost in the Tape Machine: Posthumous Voice and Residual Presence in Don DeLillo's The Body ArtistChapter 10 6 E-pistolarity and E-loquence: Sylvia Brownrigg's The Metaphysical Touch as a Novel of Letters and Voices in the Age of E-mail CommunicationChapter 11 BibliographyChapter 12 IndexChapter 13 About the Author

With Audio Book: Essays on Sound Technologies in Narrative Fiction, Mikko Keskinen makes an important contribution to an emerging acoustic turn in literary and cultural studies. This is sound scholarship in both senses of the term. Covering an impressively broad range of national traditions, Keskinen offers original readings of texts by Nick Hornby, Michel Tournier, Heinrich Böll, Sylvia Brownrigg, Don DeLillo, and others. His intelligent and compelling analyses of literary culture's negotiation ofsound reproduction open our ears to the modern acoustic world. I can highly recommend anyone interested in the interrelations between literature, technology, and aural culture to listen in...

Mikko Keskinen is adjunct professor at the University of Jyväskylä, the University of Helsinki, and the University of Tampere.

• Chapter 1 DedicationChapter 2 Table of ContentsChapter 3 AcknowledgementsChapter 4 IntroductionChapter 5 1Voces Intimae: Electro-Erotic Speech in Nicholson Baker'sVoxChapter 6 2 Voices Doubles: Auditory Identities in Michel Tournier's Tristan VoxChapter 7 3 The Cases of Radio Silence: Recorded Reticence and Revisory Declension in Heinrich Böll's "Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen"Chapter 8 4 Single, Long-Playing, and Compilation: The Formats of Audio and Amourousness in Nick Hornby's High FidelityChapter 9 5 The Ghost in the Tape Machine: Posthumous Voice and Residual Presence in Don DeLillo's The Body ArtistChapter 10 6 E-pistolarity and E-loquence: Sylvia Brownrigg's The Metaphysical Touch as a Novel of Letters and Voices in the Age of E-mail CommunicationChapter 11 BibliographyChapter 12 IndexChapter 13 About the Author

With Audio Book: Essays on Sound Technologies in Narrative Fiction, Mikko Keskinen makes an important contribution to an emerging acoustic turn in literary and cultural studies. This is sound scholarship in both senses of the term. Covering an impressively broad range of national traditions, Keskinen offers original readings of texts by Nick Hornby, Michel Tournier, Heinrich Böll, Sylvia Brownrigg, Don DeLillo, and others. His intelligent and compelling analyses of literary culture's negotiation ofsound reproduction open our ears to the modern acoustic world. I can highly recommend anyone interested in the interrelations between literature, technology, and aural culture to listen in...

Mikko Keskinen is adjunct professor at the University of Jyväskylä, the University of Helsinki, and the University of Tampere.

• Chapter 1 DedicationChapter 2 Table of ContentsChapter 3 AcknowledgementsChapter 4 IntroductionChapter 5 1Voces Intimae: Electro-Erotic Speech in Nicholson Baker'sVoxChapter 6 2 Voices Doubles: Auditory Identities in Michel Tournier's Tristan VoxChapter 7 3 The Cases of Radio Silence: Recorded Reticence and Revisory Declension in Heinrich Böll's "Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen"Chapter 8 4 Single, Long-Playing, and Compilation: The Formats of Audio and Amourousness in Nick Hornby's High FidelityChapter 9 5 The Ghost in the Tape Machine: Posthumous Voice and Residual Presence in Don DeLillo's The Body ArtistChapter 10 6 E-pistolarity and E-loquence: Sylvia Brownrigg's The Metaphysical Touch as a Novel of Letters and Voices in the Age of E-mail CommunicationChapter 11 BibliographyChapter 12 IndexChapter 13 About the Author

With Audio Book: Essays on Sound Technologies in Narrative Fiction, Mikko Keskinen makes an important contribution to an emerging acoustic turn in literary and cultural studies. This is sound scholarship in both senses of the term. Covering an impressively broad range of national traditions, Keskinen offers original readings of texts by Nick Hornby, Michel Tournier, Heinrich Böll, Sylvia Brownrigg, Don DeLillo, and others. His intelligent and compelling analyses of literary culture's negotiation ofsound reproduction open our ears to the modern acoustic world. I can highly recommend anyone interested in the interrelations between literature, technology, and aural culture to listen in...