Medieval Literary Voices: Embodiment, Materiality and Performance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526149497)

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.

Author: Louise D'Arcens
ISBN-10: 1526149494
ISBN-13: 9781526149497
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/05/2022
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d