Reading Voices: Literature and the Phonotext

"At last, a scrupulous and sustained—'earsighted'—study of that shadowy yet vital intersection of sound and sense without which literary reading remains a disembodied exercise. . . . Stewart immerses us brilliantly in the poststructural method of a 'phonemic' analysis."
—Geoffrey H. Hartman, author of Saving the Text

"Stunningly articulate. . . . Alongside brilliant exegeses of passsages from the major English poets, Stewart offers new and dazzling interpretations of the 'poetics of prose' i...