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Medieval literary voices : embodiment, materiality and performance /

Medieval literary voices explores literary voice in relation to its authorial, scribal and socio-political settings. It reveals how literary voices evoke voices lurking beyond the text - the absent authorial voice, the traces of scribal voices and the aural soundscape of the uttered text - and how t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: D'Arcens, Louise (Editor ), Sif Ríkharðsdóttir (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
Colección:Manchester medieval literature and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • <P>Introduction
  • Louise D'Arcens and Sif Rikhardsdottir<br>1 Articulate voices
  • Ruth Evans<br><br>Part I: Narrative embodiment and voicing<br>2 Voice of authority: Free indirect discourse in Chaucer's <i>General Prologue</i>
  • Helen Fulton<br>3 Speaking in person
  • Fiona Somerset<br><br>Part II: Authoritative, ethical and orthodox voices<br>4 The body speaks in <i>The Franklin's Tale</i>
  • Mishtooni Bose<br>5 The sensology of the moral conscience: William Peraldus's ethical voices
  • Richard Newhauser<br>6 Langland parrhesiastes
  • Ian Cornelius<br><br>Part III: Materiality and textual voices<br>7 Margery Kempe, the leprous woman and the voice of St Paul
  • Lawrence Warner<br>8 Listening for the scribe: punctuation and the voicing of late medieval devotional literature
  • Sarah Noonan<br>9 Parrot poet: Humphrey Newton and Bodleian Library, MS Lat. Misc. c. 66
  • Wendy Scase<br><br>Part IV: Performative voices and medieval aurality<br>10 Voice, materiality and history in <i>St Erkenwald</i> and <i>Egils saga Skallagrímssonar</i>
  • Sif Ríkharðsdóttir<br>11 Embodying the Mandevillean voice
  • Sarah Salih<br>12 Reconstructing Christine de Pizan's musical voice in the twenty-first century
  • Louise D'Arcens<br><br>Afterword: medieval voice: a tribute to David Lawton
  • John M. Ganim<br><br><i>Bibliography</i><br><i>Index</i></p>