Abstract
The absence of auscultation, listening for precise judgement, in the perceptual experience entails the phenomenon of the employment of eyes for ears in the present "era of pictorial-reading." Listening has been entrusted with the power to resist the increasingly noisy self-talking in modern life. The earliest literary activity in mankind history is story-telling through listening, and due to the absence of auscultation, some important information only available to listening has been unrevealed from literary works. The paper argues that to re-read literary works from the perspective of listening facilitates to offset the perceptual imbalance caused by visual hegemony.
First Page
26
Last Page
34
Recommended Citation
Fu, Xiuyan. 2016. "On Auscultation." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 36, (1): pp.26-34. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol36/iss1/9
