Description |
1 online resource (xv, 232 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Introduction : World of Echo -- "Clamor iste canor est" : Rolle's Heavenly Song and the Lay Theology of Noise -- "Nota de clamore" : Echoic Mysticism and Margery Kempe's Clamorous Style -- "Wondres to here" : Noise, Soundplay, and Langland's Poetics of Lolling in the Time of Wyclif -- "Litel sercle[s]" of Sound : Resonance and the Noise of Language in Chaucer's House of Fame -- "A Verray Jangleresse" : Experience, Authority, and the Voice of the Wife of Bath -- Epilogue : Echoic Afterlives |
Summary |
"By showing how medieval thinkers used the idea of noise to conceive of lay experience and expression, this book amplifies the history of cultural and social hierarchies around aesthetic experience and gives voice to alternate ways of knowing"-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 21, 2020) |
Subject |
Noise -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Sound -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- To 1500
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HISTORY / Medieval
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Intellectual life
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Noise -- Social aspects
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SUBJECT |
England -- Intellectual life -- 1066-1485.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043300
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Subject |
England
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2019046309 |
ISBN |
9781501749629 |
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1501749625 |
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9781501749612 |
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1501749617 |
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