Medieval literary voices: Embodiment, materiality and performance (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781526149480

Related ISBNs:

9781526149503, 9781526149497

Publisher:

Manchester University Press

Date of Addition:

11/01/24

Copyrighted By:

Manchester University Press

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Louise D’Arcens

Edited by:

Sif Ríkharðsdóttir