ISBN: 9780226838014 - Out of the Mouths of Babes: Infant Voices in Medieval French Literature (17 results)

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'In this book, Julie Singer explores rich and strange moments in medieval literary texts where toddlers and infants-even fetuses-speak, and the important cultural work these texts perform. Through comparative readings of a wide array of literary, scientific, and encyclopedic sources-including treatises, practical manuals, miracle tales and devotional texts, and lyric and epic poetry-Singer shows how literary representations of infants, those who are ostensibly mute but are suddenly endowed with speech, can offer alternative ways to understand what it means to be human. Marshaling a wide array of critical tools borrowed from sound/voice studies and disability studies, from children's to religious studies, and from the medical humanities and the history of medicine, Singer shows that these moments of imagined speech from children too young to talk are far from trivial or whimsical episodes in imaginative literature. On the contrary, these texts allowed medieval writers to ask important philosophical questions about our notions of ability versus disability and the origins and symbolic logic of human language. In these tales from the speculative realms of fiction, Singer shows, medieval writers discovered a potent ethical tool. Infants offer what other human subjects cannot: a way of bypassing experientially-acquired knowledge, proceeding directly to universal truths. This study will be useful to a broad range of scholars beyond literary studies'.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A wide-ranging study of the rich questions raised by speaking infants in medieval French literature. Medieval literature is full of strange moments when infants (even fetuses) speak. In Out of the Mouths of Babes, Julie Singer explores the unsettling questions raised by these events, including What is a person? Is speech fundamental to our humanity? And what does it mean, or what does it matter, to speak truth to power? Singer contends that descriptions of baby talk in medieval French literature are far from trivial. Through treatises, manuals, poetry, and devotional texts, Singer charts how writers imagined infants to speak with an authority untainted by human experience. What their children say, then, offers unique insight into medieval hopes for universal answers to life's deepest wonderings. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…