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Author Lears, Adin E. (Adin Esther), 1982- author

Title World of echo : noise and knowing in late medieval England / Adin E. Lears
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020
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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
Sound -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY / Medieval
Intellectual life
Noise -- Social aspects
SUBJECT England -- Intellectual life -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043300
Subject England
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019046309
ISBN 9781501749629
1501749625
9781501749612
1501749617