World of echo : noise and knowing in late medieval England
- Author/Creator:
- Lears, Adin E. 1982- (Adin Esther), author
- Publication/Creation:
- Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- World of echo : noise and knowing in late medieval England / Adin E. Lears
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Noise--Social aspects--England--History--To 1500
Sound--Social aspects--England--History--To 1500
England--Intellectual life--1066-1485
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Voice in Medieval Soundscapes -- "Clamor iste canor est" : Rolle's Heavenly Song and the Lay Theology of Noise -- "Nota de clamore" : Echoic Mysticism and Margery Kempe's Clamorous Style -- "Wondres to here" : Noise, Soundplay, and Langland's Poetics of Lolling in the Time of Wyclif -- "Litel sercle[s]" of Sound : Resonance and the Noise of Language in Chaucer's House of Fame -- "A Verray Jangleresse" : Experience, Authority, and the Voice of the Wife of Bath -- Epilogue : Echoic Afterlives.
- Summary:
- "By showing how medieval thinkers used the idea of noise to conceive of lay experience and expression, this book amplifies the history of cultural and social hierarchies around aesthetic experience and gives voice to alternate ways of knowing"--
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- xv, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9937225903002486
- ISBN:
- 9781501749605
1501749609 - OCLC Number:
- 1124771668
- Barcode:
- 010003098697
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