Słuchanie literatury w społeczeństwie medialnym
Listening to Literature in Media Society

Summary/Abstract: Hejmej explores the question of “listening to literature” in the context of culturaldevelopments that shape the modern audiosphere as well as practices of listening/hearing in media society. He analyses the effects of the expansiveness of sound(cacophony of media, so-called background noise) and the conditioning of auralperception (acousmatic experience, aural hyperaesthesia) as well as the effects of existingwithin sound as observed in the case of literature. The modern audio experience allowsHejmej to formulate a main thesis: in the realities of media society literature ought to beunderstood in terms of sciptorality as a phenomenon of writing and at the same time asa phenomenon of voice (sound). Here, scriptorality relates to both the real presence ofvoice (vocal realisations in the form of live or acousmatic voice) and to the presence of itstrace in the process of reading (mediated acousmatic experience). This take on literatureeventually leads Hejmej to revise traditional literary scholarship.

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