{"product_id":"avid-ears","title":"Avid Ears","description":"\u003cp\u003eArguing that women’s \"silencing\" is in part the result of women’s voices being treated as the white noise of history, \u003cem\u003eAvid Ears: Medieval Gossips, Sound, and the Art of Listening\u003c\/em\u003e explores the historical representation of female voices as actual acoustic phenomena. The volume focuses on English antifeminist satire during the linguistically dynamic late Middle Ages to argue that the resonant gossips’ circle offers a cultural poetics of listening for those attentive to medieval auditory regimes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderstanding what it means to listen from both medieval and modern perspectives can challenge, so this book argues, the specular logic informing a long satirical tradition that casts the noisy speaking woman as the nemesis who confirms the social authority of the erudite man. Discerning the acoustic preoccupations of the gossips’ circle inevitably hovering behind the shrew, \u003cem\u003eAvid Ears\u003c\/em\u003e explains why the threat posed by a woman talking back to a man is only exceeded by that of a woman speaking to other women. The first book-length study to use sound studies to explore how gender registers in the medieval literary soundscape, \u003cem\u003eAvid Ears\u003c\/em\u003e attunes critics to how and what we hear when women speak in literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54237953556824,"sku":"9781138370449","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138370449.jpg?v=1777555820","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/avid-ears","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}