4. “Litel Sercles” of Sound: Resonance and the Noise of Language in Chaucer’s House of Fame

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. List of Abbreviations xiii
5. Note on Transliteration xv
6. Introduction: Voice in Medieval Soundscapes 1
7. 1. “Clamor Iste Canor Est”: Rolle’s Heavenly Song and the Lay Theology of Noise 27
8. 2. “Nota de Clamore”: Echoic Mysticism and Margery Kempe’s Clamorous Style 62
9. 3. “Wondres to Here”: Noise, Soundplay, and Langland’s Poetics of Lolling in the Time of Wyclif 94
10. 4. “Litel Sercles” of Sound: Resonance and the Noise of Language in Chaucer’s House of Fame 128
11. 5. “A Verray Jangleresse”: Experience, Authority, and the Blisse of the Wife of Bath 163
12. Epilogue: Echoic Afterlives 195
13. Bibliography 207
14. Index 223