Pub: SOUND EFFECTS. Special Issue of ORAL TRADITION 24.2 (2010).

Contents:

• "Sound Effects: the Oral / Aural Dimensions of Literature in English: Introduction" by Neil Rhodes and Chris Jones
• "The Word Made Flesh: Christianity and Oral Culture in Anglo-Saxon Verse" by Andy Orchard
• "The Trumpet and the Wolf: Noises of Battle in Old English Poetry" by Alice Jorgensen
• "Mulcaster’s Tyrant Sound" by John Wesley
• "Shakespeare’s Sound Government: Sound Defects, Polyglot Sounds, and Sounding Out" by Patricia Parker
• "On Speech, Print, and New Media: Thomas Nashe and Marshall McLuhan" by Neil Rhodes
• "James Macpherson’s Ossian Poems, Oral Traditions, and the Invention of Voice" by James Mulholland
• "Theorizing Orality and Performance in Literary Anecdote and History: Boswell’s Diaries" by Dianne Dugaw
• "Written Composition and (Mem)oral Decomposition: The Case of 'The Suffolk Tragedy'" by Tom Pettitt
• "Sites of Sound" by Bruce Johnson
• "Joyce’s Noises" by Derek Attridge
• "Where Now the Harp?  Listening for the Sounds of Old English Verse, from Beowulf to the Twentieth Century" by Chris Jones
• "Sounding Out Homer: Christopher Logue’s Acoustic Homer" by Emily Greenwood

(Thanks for the tip to Thomas Farrell.)

To download the essays, visit the journal website here: http://journal.oraltradition.org/issues/24ii.