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World of Echo - Noise and Knowing in Late Medieval England (Hardcover)
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World of Echo - Noise and Knowing in Late Medieval England (Hardcover)
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Between late antiquity and the fifteenth century, theologians,
philosophers, and poets struggled to articulate the correct
relationship between sound and sense, creating taxonomies of sounds
based on their capacity to carry meaning. In World of Echo, Adin E.
Lears traces how medieval thinkers adopted the concept of noise as
a mode of lay understanding grounded in the body and the senses.
With a broadly interdisciplinary approach, Lears examines a range
of literary genres to highlight the poetic and social effects of
this vibrant discourse, offering close readings of works by
Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, as well as the mystics
Richard Rolle and Margery Kempe. Each of these writers embraced an
embodied experience of language resistant to clear articulation,
even as their work reflects inherited anxieties about the appeal of
such sensations. A preoccupation with the sound of language emerged
in the form of poetic soundplay at the same time that mysticism and
other forms of lay piety began to flower in England. As Lears
shows, the presence of such emphatic aural texture amplified the
cognitive importance of feeling in conjunction with reason and was
a means for the laity-including lay women-to cultivate embodied
forms of knowledge on their own terms, in precarious relation to
existing clerical models of instruction. World of Echo offers a
deep history of the cultural and social hierarchies that coalesce
around aesthetic experience and gives voice to alternate ways of
knowing.
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