Resonant Listening: Reading Voices and Places in Born-Audio Literary Narratives

Abstract

"Though it is far from a new medium, audiobooks have become widely popular, and are no longer primarily associated with aids for people who have visual impairments or reading disabilities. In the moment of writing, the production and distribution of audiobooks make up the fastest growing area within the international publishing sector. ... following modern media development and specifically the process of digitization, the printed book can no longer be taken for granted as the primary mediator of literature. Literature today is developed and consumed across different media platforms, and therefore, a comparative approach must not only focus on crosscultural comparisons, reading across different languages, but also on crossmedia aspects, investigating how the textual content and concepts of literature, and concepts of reading, are influenced and transformed by different media and formats."