Research Catalog

Title

Medieval literary voices : embodiment, materiality and performance / edited by Louise D'Arcens and Sif Ríkharðsdóttir.

Publication

• Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• D'Arcens, Louise
• Sif Ríkharðsdóttir

Description

xvi, 298 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"Voice is a fleeting physical phenomenon that leaves behind traces of its existence. Medieval literary voices offers a wide-reaching approach to the concept of literary voices, both the vanished authorial ones and the implicit textual ones. Its impressive lineup deepens our understanding of how literary voices evoke the elusive voices lurking beyond the text, capturing the absent authorial voice, the traces of scribal voices and the soundscape of the uttered text. It explores multiple dimensions of medieval voice and vocalisations, and the interactions between literary voices and their authorial, scribal and socio-political settings. It contends that through the theorizing of literary voices we can begin to understand the ways in which medieval voices mediate or proclaim an embodied selfhood or material presence, how they dictate or contest moral conventions, and how they create and sustain narrative soundscapes." --

Series Statement

Manchester medieval literature and culture

Uniform Title

Manchester medieval literature and culture.

Subject

• Literature, Medieval > History and criticism
• Point of view (Literature)
• Literature, Medieval

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Literary criticism.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-289) and index.

Contents

1. Articulate voices / Ruth Evans -- pt. I Narrative embodiment and voicing -- 2. Voice of authority: free indirect discourse in Chaucer's General Prologue / Helen Fulton -- 3. Speaking in person / Fiona Somerset -- pt. II Authoritative, ethical and orthodox voices -- 4. The body speaks in The Franklin's Tale / Mishtooni Bose -- 5. The sensology of the moral conscience: William Peraldus's ethical voices / Richard Newhauser -- 6. Langland parrhesiastes / Ian Cornelius -- pt. III Materiality and textual voices -- 7. Margery Kempe, the leprous woman and the voice of St Paul / Lawrence Warner -- 8. Listening for the scribe: punctuation and the voicing of late medieval devotional literature / Sarah Noonan -- 9. Parrot poet: Humphrey Newton and Bodleian Library, MS Lat. Misc. c. 66 / Wendy Scase -- pt. IV Performative voices and medieval aurality -- 10. Voice, materiality and history in St Erkenwald and Egils saga Skallagrimssonar / Sif Rikharosdottir -- 11. Embodying the Mandevillean voice / Sarah Salih -- 12. Reconstructing Christine de Pizan's musical voice in the twenty-first century / Louise D'Arcens.

Call Number

JFD 22-2520

ISBN

• 9781526149497
• 1526149494

OCLC

1287923114

Title

Medieval literary voices : embodiment, materiality and performance / edited by Louise D'Arcens and Sif Ríkharðsdóttir.

Publisher

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Manchester medieval literature and culture

Manchester medieval literature and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-289) and index.

Added Author

D'Arcens, Louise, editor.

Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Medieval literary voices. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022 9781526149503 (OCoLC)1287992727

Research Call Number

JFD 22-2520