| Description |
1 online resource (x, 267 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Series |
Sound in history |
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Sound in history.
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| Contents |
Writing Sonic Bodies -- Musica Celestis and Canor: angelic song in speculative music theory and Rollean mysticism -- Touching music: Walter Hilton, angels' song, and synaesthesia -- Attending to The boke of Margery Kempe -- Music, Amicitia, and Carthusian mystical diaries -- Pieres Plowman, the sound-object, and the singing community -- Disability, music, and Chaucer's Advental bodies -- Coda |
| Summary |
"What is the body when it performs music? And what, conversely, is music as it reverberates through or pours out of a performing body? Tekla Bude starts from a single premise -- that music requires a body to perform it -- to rethink the relationship between music, matter, and the body in the late medieval period. Progressing by way of a series of case studies of texts by Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, Margery Kempe, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and others, Bude argues that writers thought of "music" and "the body" not as separate objects or ontologically prior categories, but as mutually dependent and historically determined processes that called each other into being in complex and shifting ways. For Bude, these "sonic bodies" are often unexpected, peculiar, even bizarre, and challenge our understanding of their constitutive parts. Building on recent conversations about embodiment and the voice in literary criticism and music theory, Sonic Bodies makes two major interventions across these fields: first, it broadens the definitional ambits and functions of both "music" and "the body" in the medieval period; and second, it demonstrates how embodiment and musicality are deeply and multiply intertwined in medieval writing. Compelling literary subjects, Bude argues, are literally built out of musical situations." |
| Analysis |
Cultural Studies |
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Literature |
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Medieval and Renaissance Studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-257) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter platform, viewed April 26, 2022) |
| Subject |
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
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Music and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Music -- 500-1400 -- Philosophy and aesthetics
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Music in literature.
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Human body in music.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
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English literature -- Middle English
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Human body in music
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Music and literature
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Music in literature
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780812298321 |
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0812298322 |
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