Embodied Voices
Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture
- Editor: Dunn, Leslie C.
- Editor: Jones, Nancy A.
a stimulating book which keeps its focus true despite the almost perverse range of subject matter ... [a] dizzying intellectual switchback —
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Contents
- Introduction;
- Part I . Vocality, Textuality, and the Silencing of the Female Voice:
- 1. The Gorgon and the nightingale: the voice of female lament and Pindar's Twelfth Pythian Ode;
- 2. Music and the maternal voice in Purgatorio XIX;
- 3. Ophelia's songs in Hamlet: music, madness and the feminine;
- 4. Wordsworth and Romantic voice: the poet's song and the prostitute's cry;
- Part II . Anxieties of Audition:
- 5. 'No women are indeed': the boy actor as vocal seductress in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century drama;
- 6. Deriding the voice of Jeanette MacDonald: notes on psychoanalysis and the American film musical;
- 7. Adorno and the Sirens: tele-phono-graphic bodies;
- Part III . Women Artists: Vocality and Cultural Authority:
- 8. The diva doesn't die: George Eliot's Armgart;
- 9. Rewriting Ophelia: fluidity, madness, and the voice in Louise Colet's La Servante;
- 10. Staring the camera down: direct address and women's voices;
- 11. The voice of lament: female vocality and performative efficacy in the Finnish-Karelian itkuvirsi;
- Part IV . Maternal Voices:
- 12. The lyrical dimensions of spirituality: music, voice, and language in the novels of Toni Morrison;
- 13. Red hot mamas: Bessie Smith, Sophie Tucker, and the ethnic maternal voice in American popular song;
- 14. Maternalism and the material girl Nancy J. Vickers.