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Animal Soundscapes in Anglo-Norman Texts (Hardcover)
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Animal Soundscapes in Anglo-Norman Texts (Hardcover)
Series: Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
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A redefinition of the animal's relationship to sound and language
in French texts from medieval England. The barks, hoots and howls
of animals and birds pierce through the experience of medieval
texts. In captivating episodes of communication between species, a
mandrake shrieks when uprooted from the ground, a saint preaches to
the animals, and a cuckoo causes turmoil at the parliament of birds
with his familiar call. This book considers a range of such
episodes in Old French verse texts, including bestiaries, treatises
on language, the Life of Saint Francis of Assisi and the Fables by
Marie de France, aiming to reconceptualize and reinterpret animal
soundscapes. It argues that they draw on sound to produce competing
perspectives, forms of life, and linguistic subjectivities,
suggesting that humans owe more to animal sounds than we are
disposed to believe. Texts inviting readers to listen and learn
animal noises, to seek spiritual consolation in the jargon of
birds, or to identify with the speaking wolf, create the conditions
for an assertion of human exceptionalism even as they
simultaneously invite readers to question such forms of control. By
asking what it means for an animal to cry, make noise, or speak in
French, this book provides an important resource for theorizing
sound and animality in multilingual medieval contexts, and for
understanding the animal's role in the interpretation of the
natural world.
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