1st Edition
Avid Ears Medieval Gossips, Sound and the Art of Listening
By Christine Neufeld
Copyright 2019
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction: From Unruly Tongues to Avid Ears
Chapter One: The Philosopher and the Shrew
Chapter Two: "Dame, Let Be Thy Din"
Chapter Three: Gathering the Gossips
Chapter Four: Riotous Voices and God’s Ear
Chapter Five: Following Echo
Biography
Professor Christine M. Neufeld, Professor at Eastern Michigan University's Department of English Language and Literature, received her PhD. from McGill University. Her scholarship has appeared in FMLS, Philological Quarterly, Oral Tradition, Arthuriana,The Year's Work in Medievalism, MMLA, as well as several edited collections.
