Research Catalog

Title

Avid ears : medieval gossips, sound, and the art of listening / Christine M. Neufeld.

Author

Neufeld, Christine M., 1972-

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

211 pages; 24 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

Routledge studies in medieval literature and culture

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in medieval literature and culture.

Subject

• 1100-1500
• English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
• Women in literature
• Satire, English > History and criticism
• Gossip in literature
• Voice in literature
• Listening in literature
• English literature > Middle English
• Satire, English

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-201) and index.

Contents

Introduction: from unruly tongues to avid ears -- The philosopher and the shrew -- "Dame, let be thy din" -- Gathering the gossips -- Riotous voices and God's ear -- Following echo.

Call Number

JFE 19-5557

ISBN

• 9781138370449
• 1138370444
• 9780429400131 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2018038798
• 40028910193

OCLC

1078971367

Author

Neufeld, Christine M., 1972- author.

Title

Avid ears : medieval gossips, sound, and the art of listening / Christine M. Neufeld.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in medieval literature and culture

Routledge studies in medieval literature and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-201) and index.

Chronological Term

1100-1500

Other Form:

Online version: Neufeld, Christine M., 1972- author. Avid ears New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 9780429400131 (DLC) 2018058409

Other Standard Identifier

40028910193

Research Call Number

JFE 19-5557