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Avid ears : medieval gossips, sound, and the art of listening, Christine M. Neufeld

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"Arguing that women's "silencing" is in part the result of women's voices being treated as the white noise of history, Avid Ears: Medieval Gossips, Sound, and the Art of Listening explores the historical representation of female voices as actual acoustic phenomena. The volume focuses on English antifeminist satire during the linguistically dynamic late Middle Ages to argue that the resonant gossips' circle offers a cultural poetics of listening for those attentive to medieval auditory regimes. Understanding what it means to listen from both medieval and modern perspectives can challenge, so this book argues, the specular logic informing a long satirical tradition that casts the noisy speaking woman as the nemesis who confirms the social authority of the erudite man. Discerning the acoustic preoccupations of the gossips' circle inevitably hovering behind the shrew, Avid Ears explains why the threat posed by a woman talking back to a man is only exceeded by that of a woman speaking to other women. The first book-length study to use sound studies to explore how gender registers in the medieval literary soundscape, Avid Ears attunes critics to how and what we hear when women speak in literature"--
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eng
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Extent
211 pages
Contents
  • Introduction: from unruly tongues to avid ears
  • The philosopher and the shrew
  • "Dame, let be thy din"
  • Gathering the gossips
  • Riotous voices and God's ear
  • Following echo
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9781138370449
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Avid ears : medieval gossips, sound, and the art of listening
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Avid ears
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medieval gossips, sound, and the art of listening
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Christine M. Neufeld
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Language
eng
Summary
"Arguing that women's "silencing" is in part the result of women's voices being treated as the white noise of history, Avid Ears: Medieval Gossips, Sound, and the Art of Listening explores the historical representation of female voices as actual acoustic phenomena. The volume focuses on English antifeminist satire during the linguistically dynamic late Middle Ages to argue that the resonant gossips' circle offers a cultural poetics of listening for those attentive to medieval auditory regimes. Understanding what it means to listen from both medieval and modern perspectives can challenge, so this book argues, the specular logic informing a long satirical tradition that casts the noisy speaking woman as the nemesis who confirms the social authority of the erudite man. Discerning the acoustic preoccupations of the gossips' circle inevitably hovering behind the shrew, Avid Ears explains why the threat posed by a woman talking back to a man is only exceeded by that of a woman speaking to other women. The first book-length study to use sound studies to explore how gender registers in the medieval literary soundscape, Avid Ears attunes critics to how and what we hear when women speak in literature"--
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1972-
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Neufeld, Christine M.
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820.9/9287
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PR275.W6
LC item number
N48 2019
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Routledge studies in medieval literature and culture
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  • English literature
  • Women in literature
  • Satire, English
  • Gossip in literature
  • Voice in literature
  • Listening in literature
  • English literature
  • Gossip in literature
  • Listening in literature
  • Satire, English
  • Voice in literature
  • Women in literature
  • Geschwätz
  • Frau
  • Stimme
  • Satire
  • Englisch
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Avid ears : medieval gossips, sound, and the art of listening, Christine M. Neufeld
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: from unruly tongues to avid ears -- The philosopher and the shrew -- "Dame, let be thy din" -- Gathering the gossips -- Riotous voices and God's ear -- Following echo
Control code
1078971367
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
211 pages
Isbn
9781138370449
Lccn
2018038798
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40028910193
System control number
(OCoLC)1078971367
Label
Avid ears : medieval gossips, sound, and the art of listening, Christine M. Neufeld
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: from unruly tongues to avid ears -- The philosopher and the shrew -- "Dame, let be thy din" -- Gathering the gossips -- Riotous voices and God's ear -- Following echo
Control code
1078971367
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
211 pages
Isbn
9781138370449
Lccn
2018038798
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40028910193
System control number
(OCoLC)1078971367

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