Sound in narrative literature: From rhetoric to aesthetics stakes
Critics have most frequently given precedence to sight in the study of literary texts. It is time to restore this imbalance and to study the soundscape of narrative texts, either noises of nature, animated or inanimate, human sounds (from speech to cry) or those of machines. From one genre to another, from one author to another, from one century to the next, the atmosphere of sound changes. Each text develops a musical score, each author creates their own particular soundscape, and the sound contributes to the dynamics of the narration.