Earwitness - A Search for Sonic Understanding in Stories — A Search for Sonic Understanding in Stories

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Casgliad o draethodau yn cyfuno atgofion, astudiaethau sain a therapi llyfryddol.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Genre-busting essay collection combining memoir, sound studies and bibliotherapy.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Ed Garland, was born in Manchester in 1984. After living in Leicester and Bristol, he moved to Aberystwyth in 2016. He received a PhD in English Literature from Aberystwyth University in 2022. His thesis analyses sonic experience in contemporary fiction. His book of essays, Earwitness: A Search for Sonic Understanding in Stories , won the New Welsh Writing award in 2018.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

"a funny and occasionally poignant exploration of the sonic dimensions of literature. Ed Garland deftly weaves reflections on his own, self-inflicted, hearing loss and tinnitus with an analysis of important but neglected textual representations of sound. This book will change the way you listen to the written word." Dr Kirsti Bohata "intriguing, funny, learned, thoughtful and moving." Niall Griffiths In his twenties, Ed Garland came close to suicide but later discovered reading to help him cope with hearing loss and tinnitus. In this unique blend of memoir and literary criticism, right at the cutting edge of research drawing on both the literary and the medical worlds, the author reveals his own journey – through music then fiction – towards an understanding of sonic loss and, ultimately, towards healing. A genre-busting mix of literary criticism, sound studies and memoir, the essays explore what fictional sonic experiences can tell us about sound in everyday life. Written with humorous honesty about the ups and downs – mostly downs – of a young man’s mental health, this is a thoughtful and original exploration of recovey, and of literature’s ability to challenge preconceptions.