Breathless: Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and the Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia - Paperbackby Allen S. Weiss (Author) Explores how early radio and sound recording influenced modernist literature. Breathless explores early sound recording and the literature that both foreshadowed its invention and was contemporaneous with its early years, revealing the broad influence of this new technology at the very origins of Modernism. Through close readings of works by Edgar Allan Poe, St? phane Mallarm?, Charles Cros, Paul Val? ry, Villiers de L'Isle