Listening is one of the most fundamental modes of relationality. By listening, one comes into contact with one’s environment, allowing oneself to engage with, and even be changed by, one’s environment. In his poems of listening, William Wordsworth probes the complex nature of auditory experiences. Wordsworth’s encounters with song, sounds, and voices offer ways of thinking about the special kind of receptiveness that characterises the act of listening, in which creative, ethical, and political processes intertwine.
Felix Duperrier est doctorant au LARCA. Sa thèse porte sur la question du langage dans l’oeuvre de William Wordsworth.
Lire Wordsworth’s Acoustics: Sound Before the Echo of the Sense