Laughing Matter: Charles Cros, from Paléophone to Monologue

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE, ROMANCE Nottingham French Studies Pub Date : 2020-02-27 DOI:10.3366/nfs.2020.0270
Greg Kerr
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Nineteenth-century poet, savant and inventor Charles Cros is a figure whose endeavours were exceptionally wide-ranging. They include a proposed instrument which would be the first of its kind capable of recording sound (the ‘paléophone’); treatises on photography and interplanetary communication; poetry, and a body of comic monologues which belong to the current of fumisme. This article argues that Cros's monologues are subtly inflected by his interest in the faculty of speech and technologies of sound reproduction. While they do not explicitly evoke such technologies, they show an acute sensitivity to the quirks and accidents of the spoken word to which neither dramatic convention nor indeed norms of social discourse attribute sense. It is this ill-formed matter, amounting to a kind of discursive ‘noise’, which allows Cros to offer a wry commentary on the pretensions of a fin-de-siècle culture preoccupied with the strategizing of utterance and the production of an objectified record of the spoken word.
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笑的事:查尔斯·克罗斯,从法语到独白
19世纪的诗人、学者和发明家查尔斯·克罗斯是一位努力异常广泛的人物。其中包括一种拟议中的乐器,这将是第一种能够录音的乐器(“留声机”);关于摄影和星际通讯的论文;诗歌,以及一系列属于愤怒潮流的喜剧独白。本文认为,克罗斯的独白受到他对语言能力和声音再现技术的兴趣的微妙影响。虽然它们并没有明确地唤起这种技术,但它们对口语中的怪癖和意外表现出了敏锐的敏感性,无论是戏剧惯例还是社会话语规范都没有将其归因于意义。正是这种形式不当的事情,相当于一种话语性的“噪音”,使克罗斯能够对一种专注于话语策略和口语客观化记录的最终文化的伪装进行讽刺性的评论。
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期刊介绍: Nottingham French Studies is an externally-refereed academic journal which, from Volume 43, 2004, appears three times annually, with at least one special and one general issue each year. Its Editorial Board is drawn from members of the Department of French and Francophone Studies of the University of Nottingham, with the support of an International Advisory Board.
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