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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

D'Arcens, Louise, editor.

Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, editor.

Series:

Manchester medieval literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Point of view (Literature).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xvi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.

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." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781526149497

1526149494

OCLC:

1287923114