Avid ears : medieval gossips, sound, and the art of listening

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Avid ears : medieval gossips, sound, and the art of listening

Title remainder

medieval gossips, sound, and the art of listening

Statement of responsibility

Christine M. Neufeld

Creator

• Neufeld, Christine M., 1972-

Author

• Neufeld, Christine M., 1972-

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Englisch
• English literature -- Middle English
• English literature -- Middle English
• English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
• Frau
• Geschwätz
• Gossip in literature
• Gossip in literature
• Gossip in literature
• Listening in literature
• Listening in literature
• Listening in literature
• Satire
• Satire, English
• Satire, English
• Satire, English -- History and criticism
• Stimme
• Voice in literature
• Voice in literature
• Voice in literature
• Women in literature
• Women in literature
• Women in literature
• 1100-1500
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

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"--

Member of

• Routledge studies in medieval literature and culture

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Provided by publisher

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DLC

Dewey number

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