The Laboratory of Narrative Research (LNR) is a teaching and research unit that is part of the School of English at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It has been designed to bring together scholars and researchers from across the humanities, the social sciences and other scientific fields who have a special interest in the workings and the politics of narrative production.
Lab Director: Dr Effie Yiannopoulou
The international symposium on Experimental Narratives organized by the Laboratory of Narrative Research (November 28-29, 2019) was the right occasion for the “Bells” project to arise.
Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Bells” inspired an audiophonic narrative, produced by students attending “PraTIS311 Literary Translation” and “EnLit497 21st Century British Theatre: Sound and Music.” Their translation, narration, sound and voice recording offer us the chance to reflect on the power of language and sounds, as well as explore their beauty and symbiosis.
Visual and auditory images, form and sound patterns, all crucial meaning carriers, invite us to an intriguing investigation and interpretation of the poem through language and music.
If you wish to experience poetry in a different but appealing way, you may read our students’ translation and listen to the audiophonic narrative by clicking here.
Maria Ristani and Vasiliki Misiou
Student participants
Translated by: Thaleia-Andriani Konstantinou, Magdalini Sdrolia, and Maria Vasileiou
Voiced and composed by: Magdalini Barouta, Eleni-Christina Georgiadou, Elena Ignatiadou, Thaleia-Andriani Konstantinou, Lamprini Trianti, Vasiliki Vasiloglou, Maria Vatsi, Anastasia Vlachou
Bells: Sense the Sound
