World of Echo: Noise and Knowing in Late Medieval England
Author:   Adin E. Lears
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
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Pages:   248
Publication Date:   15 September 2020
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Author:   Adin E. Lears
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781501749605


ISBN 10:   1501749609
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   15 September 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Voice in Medieval Soundscapes 1. ""Clamor Iste Canor Est"": Rolle's Heavenly Song and the Lay Theology of Noise 2. ""Nota de Clamore"": Echoic Mysticism and Margery Kempe's Clamorous Style 3. ""Wondres to Here"": Noise, Soundplay, and Langland's Poetics of Lolling in the Time of Wyclif 4. ""Litel Sercles"" of Sound: Resonance and the Noise of Language in Chaucer's House of Fame 5. ""A Verray Jangleresse"": Experience, Authority, and the Blisse of the Wife of Bath Epilogue: Echoic Afterlives"

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An important study of a conceptual category-'noise'-that has received no extended treatment among medieval literary scholars, this book is sure to inspire new readings of noisy moments in medieval texts. Offering an introduction to relevant contemporary theories of noise and sound and innovative readings of medieval English literature written in an elegant and lively style, World of Echo practices a model of scholarship that is at once thoroughly grounded in historical reading and attentive to contemporary theoretical approaches. * Studies in the Age of Chaucer * This study of the role of extra-semantic sound will be of great interest to historians of the senses, the emotions, religious mysticism and the public political sphere. It is a fascinating and richly textured topic, and the depth of the analysis here should inspire more discussions between literary scholars and historians. * English Historical Review *


An important study of a conceptual category-'noise'-that has received no extended treatment among medieval literary scholars, this book is sure to inspire new readings of noisy moments in medieval texts. Offering an introduction to relevant contemporary theories of noise and sound and innovative readings of medieval English literature written in an elegant and lively style, World of Echo practices a model of scholarship that is at once thoroughly grounded in historical reading and attentive to contemporary theoretical approaches. * Studies in the Age of Chaucer *


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Adin E. Lears is Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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