Phonodia y la relación intermedial entre voz y texto: algunas reflexiones

The article focuses on digital files dedicated to poetry that collect, along with the text of the poem, also the recording of the author reading it aloud. Such archives become innovative tools for literary studies, either with respect to a philological perspective, or in relation to a hermeneutical approach that relates the poetic text with the acoustic document with the recording of the poet's voice. These digital files can also be useful for teaching literature. The very fact of listening to a poem from the author's own voice entails a cognitive paradigm shift with respect to the visual reading of the text printed on the page (or remediated on the web). That is why the architecture of web pages and the methods of access to the contents of these files have a determining role when it comes to redefining fundamental elements such as the relationship between the text itself and the acoustic document, the status of the reader who becomes a listener and the author who becomes a vocalizer, or performer, and also of basic concepts of lyrical language such as "author" and "authority." In this sense, the case of Phonodia, the digital archive of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, is exemplary.