Abstract

"Sounds are omnipresent in our everyday lives and they are also represented in literary texts. Whether howling wind, babbling brook, screaming girls or rattling trains - their explicit representation is manifold and enriches the scene setting with information about the soundscapes of fictional worlds. The monograph is dedicated to the operationalization of sounds as event units in literary prose, which can be manually but also automatically annotated and relationally divided into different levels of loudness, opening up new possibilities for the computational analysis of fictional soundscapes."