The Rise and Challenges of Literary Sound Studies:An Interview with Anna Snaith
Anna Snaith is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at the Department of En-glish,King's College London.A renowned scholar of Virginia Woolf,she has edited a scholar-ly edition of The Years for Cambridge University Press,and A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas(Oxford World Classics).Her major publications include Modernist Voyages:Colo-nial Women Writers in London,1890-1945(Cambridge UP,2014)and an edited collection,Sound and Literature(Cambridge UP,2020).Her research interests include modernist women writers,modernism and colonialism,and literary sounds.In this interview,Snaith answers questions about her recent exploration of literary sound studies.She talks about how Woolf's writings inspire her attention to sound,concisely introduces the key works and scholars in the field,and discusses the challenges of working on interdisciplinary projects with scholars from diverse fields.It is important,she believes,to name this field because the literary has conven-tionally been sidelined in sound studies.Sound is crucial for understanding modernism be-cause the modernist era coincided with a revolution in sonic media and technology.She points out literary scholars can contribute to sound studies by combining close linguistic analysis of the representation of sound with a broader analysis of its cultural and social significance in the world.
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